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The five colors [combined] the human eye will blind; The five notes [in one sound] the human ear confound; the five tastes [when they blend] the human mouth offend.
Racing and hunting will human hearts turn mad, Treasures high-prized make human conduct bad. Therefore the holy man attends to the inner and not to the outer. He abandons the latter and chooses the former.