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“The sage does not accumulate (for himself). The more that he expends for others, the more does he possess of his own; the more that he gives to others, the more does he have himself.
— Tao Te Ching, ch. 81 – tr. James Legge (1891)
Tao Te Ching, ch. 81 – tr. James Legge (1891)
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