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“Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Therefore the sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found in the foremost place; he treats his person as if it were foreign to him, and yet that person is preserved.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching