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吾言甚易知，甚易行。天下莫能知，莫能行。言有宗，事有君。夫唯無知，是以不我知。知我者希，則我者貴。是以聖人被褐懷玉。My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice, yet no one in the world can understand them or practice them. Words have an ancestor; affairs have a master. It is only because people do not understand this that they do not understand me. Those who understand me are few, and so I am all the more prized. Therefore the sage wears coarse cloth and carries jade in his bosom.
白Plain Chinese
我的话很容易懂，很容易做。天下却没有人能懂，没有人能做。说话有宗旨，做事有主心骨。正因为人们不懂得这一点，所以不了解我。了解我的人越少，我就越可贵。所以圣人穿着粗布衣服，怀里却揣着美玉。
Draft plain-Chinese rendering following Wang Bi; it will be checked when the chapter is taught.
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