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Chapter 60
第六十章
Governing a great state is like cooking small fish.
治大國，若烹小鮮。
Let the kingdom be governed according to the Tao, and the manes of the departed will not manifest their spiritual energy.
以道蒞天下，其鬼不神；
It is not that those manes have not that spiritual energy, but it will not be employed to hurt men.
非其鬼不神，其神不傷人；
It is not that it could not hurt men, but neither does the ruling sage hurt them.
非其神不傷人，圣人亦不傷人。
When these two do not injuriously affect each other, their good influences converge in the virtue (of the Tao).
夫兩不相傷，故德交歸焉。
