1: 道可道，非常道。名可名，非常名。
无名天地之始，有名万物之母。
故常无，欲以观其妙；常有，欲以观其徼(jiào)。
此两者同出而异名。同谓之玄，玄之又玄，众妙之门。
The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the origin of heaven and earth
Naming is the origin of the myriad things.
Therefore, always desireless, you see the mystery
Ever desiring, you see the manifestations.
These two are the same--
When they appear they are named differently.
Their sameness is the mystery,
Mystery within mystery; The door to all marvels.
11: 三十辐(fú)，共一毂(gǔ)，当其无，有车之用。
埏(shān)埴(zhí)以为器，当其无，有器之用。
凿(záo)户以为室，当其无，有室之用。
故有之以为利，无之以为用。
Thirty spokes join together in the hub; it is because of what is not there that the cart is useful.
Clay is formed into a vessel; it is because of its emptiness that the vessel is useful.
Cut doors and windows to make a room; it is because of its emptiness that the room is useful.
Therefore, what is present is used for profit; but it is in absence that there is usefulness.
18: 大道废，有仁义。智慧出，有大伪。
六亲不和，有孝慈。国家昏，有忠臣。
When the great Tao perishes, there is humanity and justice.
When intelligence is manifest, there is great deception.
When the six relationships are not in harmony, there is filial piety and compassion.
When the country is in chaos, loyal ministers appear.
24: 企者不立，跨者不行，
自见者不明，自是者不彰，自伐者无功，自矜者不长。
其在道也，曰：余食赘(zhuì)形。物或恶(wù)之，故有道者不处。
Standing on tiptoe, you are unsteady.
Straddle-legged, you cannot go.
If you show yourself, you will not be seen.
If you affirm yourself, you will not shine.
If you boast, you will have no merit.
If you promote yourself, you will have no success.
Those who abide in the Tao call these
Leftover food and wasted action
And all things dislike them.
Therefore the person of the Tao does not act like this.
33: 知人者智，自知者明。胜人者有力，自胜者强。
知足者富。强行者有志。不失其所者久，死而不亡者寿。
If you understand others you are smart.
If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
If you overcome others you have strength.
If you overcome yourself you are powerful.
If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.
If you can act with vigour, you have a will.
If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.
If you die without loss, you are eternal.
40: 反者道之动，弱者道之用。天下万物生于有，有生于无。
Return is the motion of the Tao, softening is its function.
All things in the cosmos arise from being, being arises from non-being.
56: 知者不言，言者不知。
挫其锐，解其纷，和其光，同其尘，是谓［玄同］。
故不可得而亲，不可得而疏，不可得而利，不可得而害，不可得而贵，不可得而贱。故为天下贵。
He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know.
Soften your sharpness, loosen your knots.
Soften your glare and merge with the everyday.
This is called mysteriously attaining oneness.
Though you cannot possess it, you are intimate with it, and at the same time, distant.
Though you cannot possess it, you are benefited by it, and harmed by it.
You cannot possess it, but are esteemed through it, and humbled by it.
Therefore the world values you.
71: 知不知，尚矣；不知知，病也。
圣人不病，以其病病。夫唯病病，是以不病。
There is nothing better than to know that you don't know.
Not knowing, yet thinking you know--
This is sickness.
Only when you are sick of being sick
Can you be cured.
The sage's not being sick
Is because she is sick of sickness.
Therefore she is not sick.
81: 信言不美，美言不信。
善者不辩，辩者不善。
知者不博，博者不知。
圣人不积，既以为人己愈有，既以与人己愈多。
天之道，利而不害；圣人之道，为而不争。
True words are not fancy, fancy words are not true.
The good do not debate, debaters are not good.
The one who really knows is not broadly learned,
The extensively learned do not really know.
The sage does not hoard, he gives people his surplus.
Giving his surplus to others he is enriched.
The way of Heaven is to help and not harm.
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Dao De Jing – Original in Chinese