Tao Te Ching — Refutation Edition
Chapter 44
Taoism — Lao-tzu and the Unnameable Way · text: Translated by James Legge (Sacred Books of the East, 1891) — Project Gutenberg eBook #216, 'The Tao Teh King' (public domain). Highlighted passages are answered beneath the text.
11. Or fame or life, Which do you hold more dear? Or life or wealth, To which would you adhere? Keep life and lose those other things; Keep them and lose your life:--which brings Sorrow and pain more near? 2. Thus we may see, Who cleaves to fame Rejects what is more great; Who loves large stores Gives up the richer state. 3. Who is content Needs fear no shame. Who knows to stop Incurs no blame. From danger free Long live shall he.