An idea from Tao Te Ching

Once people agree on what is beautiful, they have also made the idea of ugly. Hard and easy, long and short, high and low work the same way. Each one only means something next to its opposite, so praising one side also brings in the other.

From Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

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