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河伯曰：“然则吾大天地而小豪末，可乎？”北海若曰：“否。夫物，量无穷，时无止，分无常，终始无故。是故大知观于远近，故小而不寡，大而不多：知量无穷。证向今故，故遥而不闷，掇而不跂，知时无止；察乎虚，故得而不喜，失而不忧，知分之无常也；明乎坦涂，故生而不说，死而不祸，知终始之不可故也。计人之所知，不若其所不知；其生之时，不若未生之时；以其至小，求穷其至大之域，是故迷乱而不能自得也。由此观之，又何以知毫末之足以定至细之倪，又何以知天地之足以穷至大之域！”

河伯曰：“世之议者皆曰：‘至精无形，至大不可围。’是信情乎？”北海若曰：“夫自细视大者不尽，自大视细者不明。夫精，小之微也；郛，大之殷也：故异便。此势之有也。夫精粗者，期于有形者也；无形者，数之所不能分也；不可围者，数之所不能穷也。可以言论者，物之粗也；可以意致者，物之精也；言之所不能论，意之所不能察致者，不期精粗焉。是故大人之行，不出乎害人，不多仁恩；动不为利，不贱门隶；货财弗争，不多辞让；事焉不借人，不多食乎力，不贱贪污；行殊乎俗，不多辟异；为在从众，不贱佞谄；世之爵禄不足以为劝，戮耻不足以为辱；知是非之不可为分，细大之不可为倪。闻曰：‘道人不闻，至德不得，大人无己。’约分之至也。”

The North Sea god said:
"From the viewpoint of what's small, what's large seems incomplete (as its boundaries can't be found). From the viewpoint of what's large, what's small can't be made out clearly (as it gets lost in the background). As for what's microscopic, it's the smallest of the small. As for what's immense, it's the largest of the large. In some circumstances it's appropriate to distinguish between them. What's infinitely small and what's grossly large both have a shape. However, no one can make out the borders of what has no shape, and no one can find anything lacking in what can't be enclosed. What can be sorted out with words can be likened to what's grossly large, and what remains conveyed through thoughts can be likened to what's infinitely small. However, what can't be sorted out with words nor be thought out in the mind can't be restricted to being either grossly large or infinitely small.