That whereby the rivers and seas are able to receive
Categories:
PART II.
Books:
THE TAO AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS
That whereby the rivers and seas are able to receive the homage
and tribute of all the valley streams, is their skill in being lower
than they;--it is thus that they are the kings of them all So it is
that the sage (ruler), wishing to be above men, puts himself by his
words below them, and, wishing to be before them, places his person
behind them