SPECULUM – REFLEXÕES

Categoria: Tao Te Ching

  • Tao Te Ching XLIV

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    Fame or one’s own self, which matters to one most? One’s own self or things bought, which should count most? In the getting or the losing, which is worse? Hence he who grudges expense pays dearest in the end; He who has hoarded most will suffer the heaviest loss. Be content with what you have…

  • Tao Te Ching LXXIV

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    The people are not frightened of death. What then is the use of trying to intimidate them with the death-penalty? And even supposing people were generally frightened of death And did not regard it as an everyday thing, Which of us would dare to seize them and slay them? There is the Lord of Slaughter…

  • Traductions du Tao Te King

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    Bibliographie Taoïsme Tao Te King, Lao-tseu, trad. Conradin Von Lauer Tao Te King, Lao-tseu, trad. Stanislas Julien Tao Te King, Lao-tseu, trad. Matgioi

  • Tao Te Ching I

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    A via, que é uma via, não é a Via. O nome que tem um nome, não é um Nome. Sem nome, é a origem do céu e da terra; com um nome, é a mãe dos Dez mil seres. Com a faculdade de não sentir, se está próximo do conceber; com a faculdade de…

  • Tao Te Ching LXXXI

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    True words are not fine-sounding; Fine-sounding words are not true. The good man does not prove by argument; The he who proves by argument is not good. True wisdom is different from much learning; Much learning means little wisdom. The Sage has no need to hoard; When his own last scrap has been used up…

  • Tao Te Ching LXXX

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    Given a small country with few inhabitants, He could bring it about that through There should be among the people contrivances requiring ten times, A hundred times less labour, they would not use them. He could bring it about that the people would be ready To lay down their lives and lay them down again…

  • Tao Te Ching LXXIX

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    [To requite injuries with good deeds.] To allay the main discontent, But only in a manner that will certainly produce further discontents can hardly be called successful. Therefore the Sage behaves like the holder of the left-hand tally, Who stays where he is and does not go round making claims on people. For he who…

  • Tao Te Ching LXXVIII

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    Nothing under heaven is softer or more yielding than water; But when it attacks things hard and resistant there is not one of them that can prevail. For they can find no way of altering it. That the yielding conquers the resistant And the soft conquers the hard is a fact known by all men,…

  • Tao Te Ching LXXVII

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    Heaven’s way is like the bending of a bow. When a bow is bent the top comes down and the bottom-end comes up. So too does Heaven take away from those who have too much, And give to those that have not enough. But if it is Heaven’s way to take from those who have…

  • Tao Te Ching LXXVI

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    When he is born, man is soft and weak; In death he becomes stiff and hard. The ten thousand creatures and all plants And trees while they are alive are supple and soft, But when and dead they become brittle and dry. Truly, what is stiff and hard is a “companion of death”; What is…

  • Tao Te Ching LXXV

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    The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve. The people are difficult to keep in order because those above them interfere. That is the only reason why they are so difficult to keep in order. The people attach no importance to death, Because those…

  • Tao Te Ching XLIII

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    What is of all things most yielding Can overwhelm that which is of all things most hard. Being substanceless it can enter even where is no space; That is how I know the value of action that is actionless. But that there can be teaching without words, Value in action that is actionless, Few indeed…

  • Tao Te Ching LXXIII

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    He whose braveness lies in daring, slays. He whose braveness lies in not daring , gives life. Of these two, either may be profitable or unprofitable. But “Heaven hates what it hates; None can know the reason why”. Wherefore the Sage, too, disallows it. For it is the way of Heaven not to strive but…

  • Tao Te Ching LXXII

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    Never mind if the people are not intimidated by your authority. A Mightier Authority will deal with them in the end. Do not narrow their dwelling or harass their lives; And for the very reason that you do not harass them, They will cease to turn from you. Therefore the Sage knows himself but does…

  • Tao Te Ching LXXI

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    “To know when one does not know is best. To think one knows when one does not know is a dire disease. Only he who recognizes this disease as a disease Can cure himself of the disease. The Sage’s way of curing disease Also consists in making people recognize their diseases as diseases And thus…

  • Tao Te Ching LXX

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    My words are very easy to understand And very easy to put into practice. Yet no one under heaven understands them; No one puts them into practice. But my words have an ancestry, my deeds have a lord; And it is precisely because men do not understand this That they are unable to understand ME.…

  • Tao Te Ching LXIX

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    The strategists have the sayings: “When you doubt your ability to meet the enemy’s attack, Take the offensive yourself” And “If you doubt your ability to advance an inch, then retreat a foot”. This latter is what we call to march without moving, To roll the sleeve, but present no bare arm, The hand that…

  • Tao Te Ching LXVIII

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    The best charioteers do not rush ahead; The best fighters do not make displays of wrath. The greatest conqueror wins without joining issue; The best user of men acts as though he were their inferior. This is called the power that comes of not contending, Is called the capacity to use men, The secret of…

  • Tao Te Ching LXVII

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    Every one under heaven says that our Way is greatly like folly. But it is just because it is great, that it seems like folly. As for things that do not seem like folly — well, There can be no question about their smallness! Here are my three treasures. Guard and keep them! The first…

  • Tao Te Ching LXVI

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    How did the great rivers and seas get their kingship Over the hundred lesser streams? Through the merit of being lower than they; That was how they got their kingship. Therefore the Sage In order to be above the people Must speak as though he were lower than the people. In order to guide them…