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《先秦兩漢 - Pre-Qin and Han》 | Related resources |
《道家 - Daoism》 | Related resources |
《道德經 - Dao De Jing》 | [Warring States (475 BC - 221 BC)] English translation: James Legge [?] | Books referencing 《道德經》 Library Resources Source Related resources |
| 28 | 道德經: | 知其雄，守其雌，為天下谿。為天下谿，常德不離，復歸於嬰兒。知其白，守其黑，為天下式。為天下式，常德不忒，復歸於無極。知其榮，守其辱，為天下谷。為天下谷，常德乃足，復歸於樸。樸散則為器，聖人用之，則為官長，故大制不割。 | |
| Dao De Jing: |
(Returning to simplicity) Who knows his manhood's strength, Yet still his female feebleness maintains; As to one channel flow the many drains, All come to him, yea, all beneath the sky. Thus he the constant excellence retains; The simple child again, free from all stains. Who knows how white attracts, Yet always keeps himself within black's shade, The pattern of humility displayed, Displayed in view of all beneath the sky; He in the unchanging excellence arrayed, Endless return to man's first state has made. Who knows how glory shines, Yet loves disgrace, nor ever for it is pale; Behold his presence in a spacious vale, To which men come from all beneath the sky. The unchanging excellence completes its tale; The simple infant man in him we hail. The unwrought material, when divided and distributed, forms vessels. The sage, when employed, becomes the Head of all the Officers (of government); and in his greatest regulations he employs no violent measures.
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| 41 | 道德經: | 上士聞道，勤而行之；中士聞道，若存若亡；下士聞道，大笑之。不笑不足以為道。故建言有之：明道若昧；進道若退；夷道若纇；上德若谷；太白若辱；廣德若不足；建德若偷；質真若渝；大方無隅；大器晚成；大音希聲；大象無形；道隱無名。夫唯道，善貸且成。 | |
| Dao De Jing: |
(Sameness and difference) Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Dao, earnestly carry it into practice. Scholars of the middle class, when they have heard about it, seem now to keep it and now to lose it. Scholars of the lowest class, when they have heard about it, laugh greatly at it. If it were not (thus) laughed at, it would not be fit to be the Dao. Therefore the sentence-makers have thus expressed themselves: 'The Dao, when brightest seen, seems light to lack; Who progress in it makes, seems drawing back; Its even way is like a rugged track. Its highest virtue from the vale doth rise; Its greatest beauty seems to offend the eyes; And he has most whose lot the least supplies. Its firmest virtue seems but poor and low; Its solid truth seems change to undergo; Its largest square doth yet no corner show A vessel great, it is the slowest made; Loud is its sound, but never word it said; A semblance great, the shadow of a shade.' The Dao is hidden, and has no name; but it is the Dao which is skilful at imparting (to all things what they need) and making them complete.
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《雜家 - Miscellaneous Schools》 | Related resources |
《呂氏春秋 - Lü Shi Chun Qiu》 | [Warring States] 247 BC-239 BC Lu Bu-wei | Books referencing 《呂氏春秋》 Library Resources Related resources |
《孟春紀》 | Library Resources |
《貴公》 | Library Resources |
| 3 | 貴公: |
管仲有病，桓公往問之，曰：「仲父之病矣，漬甚，國人弗諱，寡人將誰屬國？」管仲對曰：「昔者臣盡力竭智，猶未足以知之也，今病在於朝夕之中，臣奚能言？」桓公曰：「此大事也，願仲父之教寡人也。」管仲敬諾，曰：「公誰欲相？」公曰：「鮑叔牙可乎？」管仲對曰：「不可。夷吾善鮑叔牙，鮑叔牙之為人也：清廉潔直，視不己若者，不比於人；一聞人之過，終身不忘。」「勿已，則隰朋其可乎？」「隰朋之為人也：上志而下求，醜不若黃帝，而哀不己若者；其於國也，有不聞也；其於物也，有不知也；其於人也，有不見也。勿已乎，則隰朋可也。」夫相，大官也。處大官者，不欲小察，不欲小智，故曰：大匠不斲，大庖不豆，大勇不鬥，大兵不寇。桓公行公去私惡，用管子而為五伯長；行私阿所愛，用豎刀而蟲出於戶。
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