Chapter 60

Ruling a great nation is like frying a little fish

If the world is overseen with the Way:

It's ghosts will not be divine
Well... not that they are not divine
Their divinity shall not harm the people
Not only that they don't harm the people
But the Sage wouldn't harm them either!

Where these two halves do not harm
Character concocts a return there


治大國若烹小鮮

以道蒞天下

其鬼不神
非其鬼不神

其神不傷人
非其神不傷人

聖人亦不傷人

夫兩不相傷
故德交歸焉


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