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).

世人机巧,而我却无所识别的样子。一边静的海似的,另一面却不止的飙风。别人有作为,唯我不求上进。我同世人不同,追求道的生活。