All men can be put to some use;
I alone am intractable and boorish.
 Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching. copy citation

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Author Lao Tzu
Source Tao Te Ching
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Note Translated by Arthur Waley
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“So dull am I. The world is full of people that shine; I alone am dark. They look lively and self-assured; I alone depressed. (I seem unsettled as the ocean; Blown adrift, never brought to a stop.) All men can be put to some use; I alone am intractable and boorish. But wherein I most am different from men Is that I prize no sustenance that comes not from the Mother's breast. up 21 Such the scope of the All-pervading Power. That it alone can act through the Way.” source