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5.3 Of Zijian he said, “A gentleman indeed is such a one as he! If the land of Lu were indeed without gentlemen, how could he have learnt this?”
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The Master said: “The noble person practices inclusive integrity — they embrace all with impartial care, avoiding factional alliances. The petty person forms exclusive cliques — they bond through self-interest, lacking ethical consistency.
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In this chapter, Laozi reiterates two pairs of contradictory phenomena: lightness and heaviness, movement and stillness, asserting that within each contradiction lies a fundamental aspect.