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Tzu, Lao - As for your name and your body
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Tao Teh Ching - Lao Tzu
As for your name and your body, which is the dearer?
As for your body and your wealth, which is the more to be prized?
As for gain and loss, which is more powerful?
Thus, an excessive love for anything will cost you dear in the end
The storing up of too much goods will entail a heavy loss
To know when you have enough is to be immune from disgrace
To know when to stop is to be preserved from perils
Only then can you endure long
There is no calamity like not knowing what is enough
There is no evil like covetousness
Only he who knows what is enough, will always have enough