The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Friday, November 13, 2020

Tao Te Ching 71


To know and yet think we do not know is the highest attainment; not to know and yet think we do know is a disease.

It is simply by being pained at the thought of having this disease that we are preserved from it. The sage has not the disease. He knows the pain that would be inseparable from it, and therefore he does not have it.



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