22 May 2024

Propounding the essential







Faithful words are not pleasant.
Pleasant words are not faithful.
The good ones not dispute.
Who dispute the ones not are good.
The knowing ones not are learned.
The learned ones not know.

The holy man not hoards.
Having thereby worked for others;
he himself the more exceedingly will acquire.
Having thereby given to the people 
he himself the more exceedingly will have plenty.
Heaven's reason benefits but not injures.
The holy man's reason to act but not to quarrel.













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