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The Canon of Reason and Virtue (Tao te Ching) · front matter · 1 passage
The last word here translated by "interfere" is in Chinese wei, "to do" or "to act." The terms "likely" and "unlikely" are literal translations of the Chinese. Likely apparently means what is common or usual, and the unlikely, what is unusual.
Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file tao/crv/crv129.htm.
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