People :
Author : Laozi (Lao-Tzu)
Translator : Ursula K. Le Guin
Text :
The Way bears one.
The one bears two.
The two bear three.
The three bear the ten thousand things.
The ten thousand things
carry the yin on their shoulders
and hold in their arms the yang,
whose interplay of energy
makes harmony.[30]
People despise
orphans, widowers, outcasts.
Yet that’s what kings and rulers call themselves.
Whatever you lose, you’ve won.
Whatever you win, you’ve lost.
What others teach, I say too:
violence and aggression
destroy themselves.
My teaching rests on that.
From : TheAnarchistLibrary.org.
Chronology :
November 06, 2021 : Book 2, Chapter 42 -- Added.
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