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The wise person is always fundamentally alone. Realizing that nobody ever agrees completely with any other individual, he/she knows there is no need to refer or defer to others in recognizing truth. Seeing truth, he/she merges with that truth and acts in harmony with it. Those ruled by the crowd (either in front of it or as part of it) can never know truth, for they are always slaves to that crowd, and truth is impossible for crowds to understand.