老子是中国历史上以为非常著名的学者，提倡无为而治，其思想和理论对当代中国乃至世界产生了极大的影响。

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第三章

不尚贤，使民不争；不贵难得之货，使民不盗；不见可欲，使民心不乱。

是以圣人之治，虚其心，实其腹；弱其志，强其骨。常使民无知无欲，是夫智者不敢为也。为无为，则无不治。

If we stop looking for persons of superior morality to put in power, there will be no more jealousies among the people. If we cease to set store by products that are hard to get, there are no more thieves. If the people never see such things as excite desire, their hearts will remain placid and undisturbed. Therefore the sage rules

By emptying their hearts

And filling their bellies,

Weakening their intelligence

And toughening their sinews

Ever striving to make the people knowledgeless and desireless.

Indeed he sees to it that if there be any who have knowledge, they dare not interfere. Yet through his actionless activity all things are duly regulated.

第四章

道冲而用之，或不盈。

渊兮，似万物之宗，（挫其锐，解其纷，和其光，同其尘。）湛兮，似或存。

吾不知谁之子，象帝之先。

The way is like an empty vessel

That yet may be drawn from

Without ever needing to be filled.

It is bottomless; the very progenitor of all things in the world.

In it all sharpness is blunted,

All tangles untied,

All dust smoothed.

It is like a deep pool that never dries.

Was it too the child of something else? We cannot tell.

But as a substanceless image it existed before the ancestor.