Chapter 29
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If anyone wants to seize the world and shape it by his own actions, I can see he will not succeed. The world is a sacred thing and cannot be handled by force. Whoever tries to grasp it ruins it; whoever tries to hold it loses it.
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The nature of things is this: some lead, others follow; some breathe warm, others breathe cold; some are strong, others are weak; some build up, others collapse.
So the sage avoids excess, extravagance, and indulgence.
