第八十一章
信言
信言不美，美言不信。
善者不辩，辩者不善。
知者不博，博者不知。
圣人不积，既以为人己愈有，既以与人己愈多。
天之道，利而不害；
圣人之道，为而不争。
王弼注
英译 · James Legge
The manifestation of simplicity
Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Dao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Dao) 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.
信言不美，
实在质也。
美言不信。
本在朴也。
善者不辩，辩者不善。知者不博，
极在一也。
博者不知。圣人不积，
无私自有，唯善是与，任物而已。
既以为人己愈有，
物所尊也。
既以与人己愈多。
物所归也。
天之道，利而不害；
动常生成之也。
圣人之道，为而不争。
顺天之利不相伤也。