All men have their spheres of action, while I alone seem dull and incapable, like a rude borderer. (Thus) I alone am different from other men, but I value the nursing-mother (the Tao).

世人都精明机巧,而我无所识别。边静海似,另不止飙风。别人都好很有作为,唯我不求上进。我同世人不同,追求道生活。