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Dao De Jing Introduction Table of content – The Way and Its Power

The naturalist, individualist and politic doctrine of Lao-tse exhibited in 81 poetic and obscure texts. Tr. Waley (en), Lau (en), Julien (fr) and Wilhelm (de).

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Daodejing II. 71.

Section De – Chapter LXXI

“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 ceasing to be diseased.

Waley 71

能知道自己有所不知道的, 是最高明的, 不知道却自以为是, 是大毛病。
圣人没有这个毛病, 是因为圣人厌恶它。

白话翻译

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

It is by being alive to difficulty that one can avoid it.
The sage meets with no difficulty.
It is because he is alive to it that he meets with no difficulty.

Lau 71

Savoir et (croire qu'on) ne sait pas, c'est le comble du mérite.
Ne pas savoir et (croire qu'on) sait, c'est la maladie (des hommes).
Si vous vous affligez de cette maladie vous ne l'éprouverez pas.
Le Saint n'éprouve pas cette maladie, parce qu'il s'en afflige.
Voilà pourquoi il ne l'éprouve pas.

Julien 71

Die Nichtwissenheit wissen
ist das Höchste.
Nicht wissen, was Wissen ist,
ist ein Leiden.
Nur wenn man unter diesem Leiden leidet,
wird man frei von Leiden.
Daß der Berufene nicht leidet,
kommt daher, daß er an diesem Leiden leidet;
darum leidet er nicht.

Wilhelm 71

Cf. Lunyu II. 17.
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Alias Daode Jing, Dao De Jing, Tao Te Ching, Tao Teh Ching, le Tao-tö-king, Lao-Tzu Te-Tao Ching, the Laozi, Lao Zi, the Lao Tze, le Lao-tseu, The Book of the Way and its Virtue, the Way and its Power.

The Book of Odes, The Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Three-characters book, The Book of Changes, The Way and its Power, 300 Tang Poems, The Art of War, Thirty-Six Strategies
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