Perhaps it is a matter of strictly cultural difference, but I see it can be read in thousand ways. I humbly prefere the way of interpretation between Tao Te King and nietzschean maxime: what does not kill me, makes me stronger. In this way it is nice conjucntion of social, individual, and metaphisical. For at least Machiavelli balanced between what is Good and what is Practical. And for this - Lao Zi.

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