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　　Hence [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I know the value of action without striving.
　　Few things under heaven bring more benefit than
　　the lessons learned from silence and
　　the actions taken without striving.
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　　Your integrity or your body:
　　Which is more important?
　　Your body or your possessions
　　Which is worth more?
　　Gain or loss:
　　Which is more harmful?
　　Thus it is that the miser will pay much.
　　The hoarder will suffer great loss.
　　Be content with what you have
　　and you will not be disgraced.
　　Know when to stop
　　and you will be preserved from danger.
　　Only in this way will you long endure.
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　　Great accomplishment seems incomplete,
　　yet its use is not impaired.
　　Great filllness seems empty [link widoczny dla zalogowanych],
　　yet it will never be drained.
　　Great straightness looks crooked.
　　Great skill appears clumsy.
　　Great eloquence sounds like stammering.
　　Movement overcomes cold [link widoczny dla zalogowanych],
　　stillness overcomes heat.
　　The calm and quiet set right
　　everything under heaven.
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　　When the Tao prevails in the world
　　swift horses are used to fertilize the fields.
　　When the Tao is unheeded
　　war horses are bred on the border lands.
　　There is no greater offense than harbori