Tao Te Ching coverChapter 79
Chapter 79

Part 2: Te Ching

Keep Your Obligations

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When a great hatred is reconciled, naturally some hatred will remain. How can this be made good?
Therefore the sage keeps the obligations of his contract and exacts not from others. Those who have virtue attend to their obligations; those who have no virtue attend to their claims.