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To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something
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In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them in the next they despised them.
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The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
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Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. [Doing nothing is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]
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If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!
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