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Sui-Tang -> 黄帝阴符经 -> 5

The nature (of man) is here clever and there stupid;
and the one of these qualities may lie hidden in the other.
The abuse of the nine apertures
is (chiefly) in the three most important,
which may be now in movement and now at rest.
When fire arises in wood,
the evil, having once begun, is sure to go on to the destruction of the wood.
When calamity arises in a state,
if thereafter movement ensue, it is sure to go to ruin.
When one conducts the work of culture and refining wisely
we call him a Sage.


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