from Tao Te Ching · tr. James Legge (1891)
Chapter 8
The highest excellence is like that of water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving to the contrary, the low place which all men dislike. Hence its way is near to that of the Tao.
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