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Daoism -> Zhuangzi -> Miscellaneous Chapters -> Lie Yu-kou -> 10

Dealing with men without forgetting yourself
is not according to the example of Heaven in diffusing its benefits.
Merchants and traffickers are not to be ranked (with administrative officers)
if on an occasion you so rank them,
the spirits (of the people) do not acquiesce in your doing so.
The instruments of external punishment
are made of metal and wood;
those of internal punishment
are agitation (of the mind) and (the sense of) transgression.
When small men become subject to the external punishment,
the (instruments of) metal and wood deal with them;
when they become liable to the internal punishments,
the Yin and Yang consume them.
It is only the true man who can escape both from the external and internal punishment.


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