Chapter 71
知
知，
不知，
上矣；
不知，
知，
病也。
圣人不病，
以其病病。
夫唯病病，
是以不病。
To know you do not know is best; not to know that one does not know is to be flawed. One who sees his flaws as flaws is therefore not flawed. The sage is flawless. He sees his flaws as flaws, therefore he is flawless.
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