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"Your name and your body (shen), which is dearer? Your body and material goods, which is more abundant? Gain and loss, which is illness? Therefore in excessive love one necessarily goes to great expenses, In hoarding much one necessarily loses heavily. Knowing contentment (chih tsu) one does not suffer disgrace, Knowing when to stop one does not become exhausted (tai). This way one may last long."
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Lao TzuBook
Tao Te Ching
Version: 22