Book 2, Chapter 81 : 
Telling it True
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Author : Laozi (Lao-Tzu)

Translator : Ursula K. Le Guin

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True words aren’t charming,

charming words aren’t true.

Good people aren’t contentious,

contentious people aren’t good.

People who know aren’t learned,

learned people don’t know.



Wise souls don’t hoard;

the more they do for others the more they have,

the more they give the richer they are.

The Way of heaven profits without destroying.

Doing without outdoing

is the Way of the wise.



The next little country might be so close

the people could hear cocks crowing

and dogs barking there,

but they’d get old and die

without ever having been there.



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     Book 2, Chapter 81 -- Added : November 07, 2021

     Book 2, Chapter 81 -- Updated : November 14, 2021

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