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Tao Te Ching 38.6

Now propriety is the attenuated form of leal-heartedness and good faith, and is also the commencement of disorder; swift apprehension is (only) a flower of the Tao, and is the beginning of stupidity.

English translation: James Legge (1891). Source

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