Lao-Tzu #74: If you do not fear death, then how can it intimidate you?

74

 

If you do not fear death,

then how can it intimidate you?

If you aren’t afraid of dying,

there is nothing you can not do.

 

Those who harm others

are like inexperienced boys

trying to take the place of a great lumberjack.

Trying to fill his shoes will only get them seriously hurt.

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Tao Te Ching

By Lao-Tzu

A translation for the public domain by j.h.mcdonald, 1996

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