“Recognize beauty and ugliness is born. Recognize good and evil is born. Is and isn’t produce each other. Hard depends on easy, long is tested by short, high is determined by low, sound is harmonized by voice, after is followed by before.”
– Laozi, Daodejing, Addiss & Lombardo tr. (Ch 2)
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