Sixty-Fourth Chapter
Sixty-Fourth Chapter Tao-te Ching What remains still is easy to manage. What is not yet manifest is easy to plan for. What is brittle is easy to crack. What is small is easy to scatter. Deal with things before they appear. Put things in order before disorder arises. A tree that fills a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot. A tower of nine stores begins with a heap of earth The journey of a thousand li starts with a single step. He who takes action fails. He who grasps things loses them. The sage takes no action and therefore does not fail. He does not grasp and therefore does not lose. People usually fail when they are about to succeed. So be as careful at the end as at the beginning, then there will be no failure. The sage does not treasure what is...
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