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,而所识别样子。一边静海似,另一面不止。别人都好很有作为,唯不求上进。同世人不同,追求道生活。