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With
the Tao guiding the people the rulers do not have a reason to
use weapons and violence.
Heaven below's (sacred body's) activities will return to the highest
degree.
The master knows when to stop, for brambles and thorny bushes live there.
Great battles are postponed, or surely there would be disaster for years.
The results are good when one does not venture to rule by force.
They succeed yet do not brag.
They succeed yet do not destroy.
They succeed yet are not arrogant.
They succeed yet do not possess!
They succeed yet do not overpower.
Life flourishes and then decays.
This is sometimes spoken of as not the Tao.
Not the Tao is when life ends before its time.
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