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Tao Te Ching Chapter 70 | Lao-Tzu | Comparative Translations

  • Writer: Liveology
    Liveology
  • Jan 29, 2023
  • 1 min read

Updated: May 3, 2023

The Way of Virtue





My words are very easy to know, and very easy to practise; but there is no one in the world who is able to know and able to practise them.


There is an originating and all-comprehending (principle) in my words, and an authoritative law for the things (which I enforce). It is because they do not know these, that men do not know me.


They who know me are few, and I am on that account (the more) to be prized. It is thus that the sage wears (a poor garb of) hair cloth, while he carries his (signet of) jade in his bosom.

My teachings are easy to understand

and easy to put into practice.

Yet your intellect will never grasp them,

and if you try to practice them, you'll fail.


My teachings are older than the world.

How can you grasp their meaning?


If you want to know me,

look inside your heart.




Translated by J. Legge





Translated by Stephen Mitchell


















 

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