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(The attribute of humility)
大國者下流，What makes a great state is its being (like) a low-lying, down- flowing (stream);
天下之交， - it becomes the centre to which tend (all the small states) under heaven.
天下之牝。(To illustrate from) the case of all females:
牝常以靜勝牡， - the female always overcomes the male by her stillness.
以靜為下。 Stillness may be considered (a sort of) abasement.
故大國以下小國，Thus it is that a great state, by condescending to small states,
則取小國； gains them for itself;
小國以下大國，and that small states, by abasing themselves to a great state,
則取大國。 win it over to them.
故或下以取， In the one case the abasement leads to gaining adherents,
或下而取。 in the other case to procuring favour.
大國不過欲兼畜人，The great state only wishes to unite men together and nourish them;
小國不過欲入事人。a small state only wishes to be received by, and to serve, the other.
夫兩者各得其所欲， Each gets what it desires,
大者宜為下。 but the great state must learn to abase itself.

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