True Words Are Not Fine
The Text
信言不美，美言不信。善者不辩，辩者不善。知者不博，博者不知。圣人不积，既以为人己愈有，既以与人己愈多。天之道，利而不害；圣人之道，为而不争。
True words are not fine; fine words are not true. The good do not argue; those who argue are not good. The wise are not learned; the learned are not wise. The sage does not hoard: the more he does for others, the more he has; the more he gives to others, the greater his abundance. The way of heaven benefits and does not harm; the way of the wise acts and does not contend.
Reading it
The book closes by telling you how to tell it from its imitations: polish is the tell. The economics of the sage invert inventory — outflow as accumulation — and the final sentence is the whole eighty-one chapters in eleven characters: benefit without harm, act without contending.
全书以辨别真伪的方法收束：抛光是破绽。圣人的经济学把库存倒转——流出即累积——末句是八十一章在十一个字里的总量：利而不害，为而不争。
Retell one hard truth this week in plain, unlovely words. Then give something away and check whether it came back as abundance.
这周用朴素不好听的词复述一个硬道理。然后送出一样东西，核对它是否以丰盛的方式回来。