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Tao Te Ching 81
Tao Te Ching
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The opening of the closing chapter. Legge's parentheses are his own. The chapter ends with the sage who acts without striving, which is the book's last word on wu wei.
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TextSincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it. 1 Reference Scheme Translation
TranslationThe Texts of Taoism, Part I (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 39) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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