廣弘明集 5.37

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5.37

'Ritual is the thinning of loyalty and good faith, and the beginning of chaos. Foreknowledge is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly. Therefore, the great man abides in the substantial and not in the thin; he abides in the fruit and not in the flower.'

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廣弘明集 — Classical Chinese