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“Thus, the wise man looks into space, and does not regard the small as too little, nor the great as too much; for he knows that there is no limit to dimension.
— Zhuangzi
Taoist philosopher
Zhuangzi, Ch. 17 莊子/秋水 (tr. Herbert A. Giles, 1889)
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