[display_podcast] Chapter Seventy-Six Man at his birth is supple and weak; at his death, firm and strong.¬ So it is with all things.¬ Trees and plants, in their early growth, are soft and brittle; at their death, dry and withered. Thus it is that firmness and strength are the concomitants of death; softness and weakness, [...]
[display_podcast] Chapter Seventy-Five The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors.¬ It is through this that they suffer famine. The people are difficult to govern because of the excessive agency of their superiors in governing them.¬ It is through this that they are difficult to govern. The people [...]
[display_podcast] Chapter Seventy-Four The people do not fear death; to what purpose is it to try to frighten them with death?¬ If the people were always in awe of death, and I could always seize those who do wrong, and put them to death, who would dare to do wrong? There is always One who [...]
[display_podcast] Chapter Seventy-Three He whose boldness appears in his daring to do wrong, in defiance of the laws is put to death; he whose boldness appears in his not daring to do so lives on.¬ Of these two cases the one appears to be advantageous, and the other to be injurious.¬ But When Heaven’s anger [...]
[display_podcast] Chapter Seventy-Two When the people do not fear what they ought to fear, that which is their great dread will come on them. Let them not thoughtlessly indulge themselves in their ordinary life; let them not act as if weary of what that life depends on. It is by avoiding such indulgence that such [...]
[display_podcast] ¬Chapter Seventy-One To know and yet think we do not know is the highest attainment; not to know and yet think we do know is a disease. It is simply by being pained at the thought of having this disease that we are preserved from it.¬ The sage has not the disease. He knows [...]
