Book 1, Chapter 24 : 
Proportion
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Author : Laozi (Lao-Tzu)

Translator : Ursula K. Le Guin

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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.



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