The small man counts small evil as no evil, and never refrains from it. He counts small good as no good, and never does it.

I Ching (Book of Changes), Xici II · free rendering

Once, a man walked the long road below the mountain.

The petty person thinks a small good is of no use, and so does not do it;

thinks a small wrong does no harm, and so does not give it up.

So the wrongs pile up, until they can no longer be hidden.

Book of Changes, Xici II

Further down the road, a girl broke her bread in half and tilted her cup toward a stranger.

“With half a loaf and a tilted cup I won myself a companion.”

Hávamál 52 · ᚠᛁᛚᛅᚴᛅ filaka, “companion”: carved so on a runestone found in Aarhus (DR 68, c. 1000)

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    Ink poster: a traveller in a straw hat stands under a pine above a misty valley, Mount Fuji behind; a red thread runs from his hand across the valley to an empty red square. Text: The small man counts small evil as no evil, and never refrains from it. He counts small good as no good, and never does it. — I Ching