CHAPTER 33
-----Lao Zi

 

To understand others is to have knowledge;
To understand oneself is to be illumined.
To conquer others needs strength;
To conquer oneself is harder still.
To be content with what one has is to be rich.
He that works through violence may get his way;
But only what stays in its place
Can endure.
When one dies one is not lost, there is no other longevity.
附原文如下:
知人者智,自知者明。
胜人者有力,自胜者强。
知足者富。
强行者有志。
不失其所者久。
死而不亡者寿。