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　　Keeping the People Quiet
　　Not boasting of one's worth forestalls people's envy.
　　Not prizing treasures difficult to obtain keeps people from committing theft.
　　Not contemplating what kindles desire keeps the heart unconfused.
　　Therefore the holy man when he governs empties the people's hearts but fills their stomachs. He weakens their ambition but strengthens their bones. Always he keeps the people unsophisticated and without desire. He causes that the crafty do not dare to act. When he acts with non-assertion there is nothing ungoverned.
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　　Sourceless
　　Reason is empty, but its use is inexhaustible. In its profundity [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], verily, it resembleth the arch-father of the ten thousand things.
　　"It will blunt its own sharpness [link widoczny dla zalogowanych],
　　Will its tangles adjust;
　　It will dim its own radiance
　　And be one with its dust."
　　Oh [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], how calm it seems to r[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]in! I know not whose son it is. Apparently even the Lord it precedes.
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　　The Function of Emptiness
　　But for heaven and earth's humaneness, the ten thousand things are straw dogs. But for the holy man's humaneness, the hundred families are straw dogs.
　　Is not the space between heaven and earth like unto a bellows? It is empty; yet it co