 In people's handling of affairs, they always ruin things when they're right at the point of completion.  Therefore we say, "If you're as careful at the end as you were at the beginning, you'll have no failures."  Therefore the Sage desires not to desire and doesn't value goods that are hard to obtain;  He learns not to learn and returns to what the masses pass by;  He could help all things to be natural, yet he dare not do it.  