I. Original text
He who knows others is wise, and he who knows himself is wise; The winner is strong, the winner is strong; Those who are satisfied are rich, and those who are forced are ambitious; He who has not lost his position for a long time will die without dying.
Second, translation.
Being able to understand and know others is called wisdom, and being able to know and know yourself is called cleverness. Being able to overcome others is powerful, and being able to restrain your own weaknesses is powerful. People who know how to be satisfied are rich. Perseverance and unremitting efforts are aspirations. Only those who do not lose their duty can live long, and those who die and "Tao" still exist are the real longevity.
Third, the source
Laozi's moral classics
Introduction of works
Tao Te Ching is a philosophical work of Lao Zi (Li Er) in the Spring and Autumn Period, also known as Tao Te Ching, Lao Zi's Five Thousand Words and Lao Zi's Five Thousand Articles. It is a work before the separation of pre-Qin philosophers in ancient China and an important source of Taoist philosophical thoughts. Tao Te Ching is divided into two parts. The first part of the original text is the Tao Te Ching, and the second part is the Tao Te Ching, without chapters. Later, it was changed to the Tao Te Ching in the first 37 chapters, and the Tao Te Ching in the last 38 chapters, divided into 8 1 chapters.
The text of Tao Te Ching takes "morality" in the philosophical sense as the main line, and discusses the ways of self-cultivation, governing the country, using troops and keeping in good health, but most of them aim at politics. It is the so-called "inner sage and outer king", known as the king of all classics, with profound meaning and wide tolerance.