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"The Way begets them Virtue keeps them matter shapes them usage completes them thus do all things honour the Way and glorify Virtue the honour of the Way the glory of Virtue and not conferred but always so the Way begets and keeps them cultivates and trains them steadies and adjusts them nurtures and protects them but begets without possessing acts without presuming and cultivates without controlling this is called Dark Virtue"
Author
Lao TzuAll Translations
English
"The Way begets them Virtue keeps them matter shapes them usage completes them thus do all things honour the Way and glorify Virtue the honour of the Way the glory of Virtue and not conferred but always so the Way begets and keeps them cultivates and trains them steadies and adjusts them nurtures and protects them but begets without possessing acts without presuming and cultivates without controlling this is called Dark Virtue"