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Tao Te Ching · Chapter 46
A source-aware reading page for Tao Te Ching chapter 46.
Read Tao Te Ching chapter 46 with the Chinese text, Wang Bi and Heshang Gong commentary, Legge's 1891 translation, and source notes.
Chinese text
天下有道，卻走馬以糞。
天下無道，戎馬生於郊。
禍莫大於不知足；咎莫大於欲得。故知足之足，常足矣。
English support translation
When the Tao prevails in the world, they send back their swift
horses to (draw) the dung-carts. When the Tao is disregarded in the
world, the war-horses breed in the border lands.
There is no guilt greater than to sanction ambition; no calamity
greater than to be discontented with one's lot; no fault greater than
the wish to be getting. Therefore the sufficiency of contentment is
an enduring and unchanging sufficiency.