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得道多助，失道寡助
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Definitions
- 1. A just cause attracts much support, an unjust one finds little (idiom, from Mencius)
Child Words of 得道多助，失道寡助
to obtain
road
structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc
many; much
(esp. of an unjust cause) to receive little support
(literary) to lose one's way; to get lost
receiving much help (from outside)
to have to
to achieve the Dao
to help
few
to lose
an unjust cause finds little support (idiom, from Mencius)