Book 1, Chapter 13 : 
Shameless
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Author : Laozi (Lao-Tzu)

Translator : Ursula K. Le Guin

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To be in favor or disgrace

is to live in fear.

To take the body seriously

is to admit one can suffer.



What does that mean,

to be in favor or disgrace

is to live in fear?

Favor debases:

we fear to lose it,

fear to win it.

So to be in favor or disgrace

is to live in fear.



What does that mean,

to take the body seriously

is to admit one can suffer?

I suffer because I’m a body;

if I weren’t a body,

how could I suffer?



So people who set their bodily good

before the public good

could be entrusted with the commonwealth,

and people who treated the body politic

as gently as their own body

would be worthy to govern the commonwealth.[9]



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