Chapter Eighty-One
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Chapter Eighty-One
Sincere 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.
The sage does not accumulate for himself.  The more that he expends for others, the more does he possess of his own; the more that he gives to others, the more does he have himself.
With all the sharpness of the Way of Heaven, it injures not; with all the doing in the way of the sage he does not strive.
