Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
- Those who are skilled (in the Tao ) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it.
- Those who know (the Tao ) are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it.
The sage does not accumulate (for himself).
- The more that he expends for others, the more does he possess of his own;
- the more that he gives to others, the more does he have himself.
With all the sharpness of the Way of Heaven, it injures not; with all the doing in the way of the sage he does not strive.