Chapter 30 Tao Te Ching

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Use Tao to help rule people.

This world has no need for weapons,
Which soon turn on themselves.
Where armies camp, nettles grow;
After each war, years of famine.

The most fruitful outcome
Does not depend on force,
But succeeds without arrogance
          Without hostility
          Without pride
          Without resistance
          Without violence.

If these things prosper and grow old,
This is called not-Tao.
Not-Tao soon ends.


(from Tao Te Ching translated by Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo)

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