Chapter 9
It is better to leave a vessel unfilled, than to attempt to carry it when it is full. When the work is done, and one's name is becoming distinguished, to withdraw into obscurity is the way of Heaven.
from Tao Te Ching · tr. James Legge (1891)
Chapter 9
It is better to leave a vessel unfilled, than to attempt to carry it when it is full. When the work is done, and one's name is becoming distinguished, to withdraw into obscurity is the way of Heaven.
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