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The highest excellence is like water, which benefits all things and takes the low place without striving
Drawn from what Laozi said
What Laozi actually said
- Laozi Chinese thinker traditionally named as the author of the Daodejing
The highest excellence is like (that of) water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving (to the contrary), the low place which all men dislike.
Where this was said
↗Tao Teh King, traditionally ascribed to Laozi (tr. James Legge, 1891)gutenberg.org
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