People :
Author : Laozi (Lao-Tzu)
Translator : Ursula K. Le Guin
Text :
You can’t keep standing on tiptoe
or walk in leaps and bounds.
You can’t shine by showing off
or get ahead by pushing.
Self-satisfied people do no good,
self-promoters never grow up.
Such stuff is to the Tao
as garbage is to food
or a tumor to the body,
hateful.
The follower of the Way
avoids it.
From : TheAnarchistLibrary.org.
Chronology :
November 06, 2021 : Book 1, Chapter 24 -- Added.
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