Tao Te Ching: Chapter 72

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) by Laozi, trans. James Legge
Chapter 71
Chapter 73

Chapter 72

1

When the people do not fear what they ought to fear, that which is their great dread will come on them.

2

Let them not thoughtlessly indulge themselves in their ordinary life; let them not act as if weary of what that life depends on.

3

It is by avoiding such indulgence that such weariness does not arise.

4

Therefore the sage knows (these things) of himself, but does not parade (his knowledge); loves, but does not (appear to set a) value on, himself. And thus he puts the latter alternative away and makes choice of the former.

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