CHINESE ORIGINAL
大道泛兮，其可左右。
万物恃之而生而不辞，功成不名有。
衣养万物而不为主，常无欲，可名于小；万物归焉而不为主，可名为大。
以其终不自为大，故能成其大。
ENGLISH · JAMES LEGGE, 1891
All-pervading is the Great Tao! It may be found on the left hand and on the right.
All things depend on it for their production, which it gives to them, not one refusing obedience to it. When its work is accomplished, it does not claim the name of having done it. It clothes all things as with a garment, and makes no assumption of being their lord;--it may be named in the smallest things. All things return (to their root and disappear), and do not know that it is it which presides over their doing so;--it may be named in the greatest things.
Hence the sage is able (in the same way) to accomplish his great achievements. It is through his not making himself great that he can accomplish them.
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