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Tao Te ChingChapter 71
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Chapter 71

知,不知,上矣;
不知,知,病也。
聖人不病,以其病病。
夫唯病病,是以不病。

To know, yet think one does not know, is highest;
not to know, yet think one knows, is a sickness.
The sage is not sick, because he takes the sickness as sickness.
Precisely because he takes the sickness as sickness, he is not sick.