信言
原文
信言不美，美言不信。善者不辩，辩者不善。知者不博，博者不知。圣人不积，既以为人己愈有，既以与人己愈多。天之道，利而不害；圣人之道，为而不争。
王弼注
信言不美，实在质也。美言不信。本在朴也。善者不辩，辩者不善。知者不博，极在一也。博者不知。圣人不积，无私自有，唯善是与，任物而已。既以为人己愈有，物所尊也。既以与人己愈多。物所归也。天之道，利而不害；动常生成之也。圣人之道，为而不争。顺天之利不相伤也。
英文 · James Legge
(The manifestation of simplicity) Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Dao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Dao) are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it. The sage does not accumulate (for himself). The more that he expends for others, the more does he possess of his own; the more that he gives to others, the more does he have himself. With all the sharpness of the Way of Heaven, it injures not; with all the doing in the way of the sage he does not strive.