Tao Te Ching: Chapter 45

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) by Laozi, trans. James Legge
Chapter 44
Chapter 46

Chapter 45

1

Who thinks his great achievements poor
Shall find his vigour long endure.
Of greatest fulness, deemed a void,
Exhaustion ne'er shall stem the tide.
Do thou what's straight still crooked deem;
Thy greatest art still stupid seem,
And eloquence a stammering scream.

2

Constant action overcomes cold; being still overcomes heat. Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.

 
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