{"collection":"Taoism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tao/mt/mt84.htm","path":"tao/mt/mt84.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tao/mt/mt84.htm","text":"The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion, by C. Spurgeon Medhurst, [1905]\nSincere words are not (necessarily) pleasant, nor are pleasant words (necessarily) sincere.\nThe good are not (necessarily) skillful debaters, nor are skillful debaters (necessarily) good men. 1\nThe wise are not (necessarily) well-informed, nor are the well-informed (necessarily) wise. 2\nThe Holy Man does not accumulate. He works for others, yet ever has abundance for himself; he gives to others, yet himself ever possesses superabundance.\nThe divine way is advantageous, without danger; the way of the Sages is effective without struggle. 3\n131:1 \"Confucius remarked, 'With plausible speech and fine manners will seldom be found moral character.'\" Analects.\n131:2 \"Confucius remarked, 'A man who possesses moral worth will always have something to say worth listening to; but a man who has something to say is not necessarily a man of moral worth.'\" Analects.\n131:3 The last sentence is according to the rendering of Mr. T. W. Kingsmill.\nLit.\u2014\"Heaven's Tao benefits but injures not; the Holy Man's Tao acts but strives not.\"\n131:* Quoted by Dr. Legge from Bunyan, in loc.","title":"The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion: Chapter LXXXI","type":"page"}