Tao Te Ching LXX

Waley

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.
Few then understand ME, but it is upon this very fact my value depends.
It is indeed in this sense that “the Sage wears hair-cloth on top,
But carries jade underneath his dress.”


Wieger

Duyvendak

Matgioi

Haven

Mitchell

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