Bab Bab 81 · Chapter 81

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81. 1. Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those

who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the

disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not

extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it.

2. The sage does not accumulate (for himself). The more that he

expends for others, the more does he possess of his own; the more that

he gives to others, the more does he have himself.

3. With all the sharpness of the Way of Heaven, it injures not; with

all the doing in the way of the sage he does not strive.