| Recognizing Fidelity In the social world, nothing is softer or more pliant than water. And yet when it attacks firm, rigid things, none of them is able to win. This is due to their lacking that with which to metamorphose it. That the pliant wins over the rigid, the soft wins over the hard, In the social world, no one fails to know. [Yet] no one is able to execute. Using this: Sages say, "Taking the soil of a state, this is called ruler of the world's grain alters. Taking the non-auspicious state, this is being deemed the king of the social world." Rectified language is like its opposite. |
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