bs2 · @bsmall2
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> He who knows when he has got enough is rich
trans.
> 知足者富
> 足るを知る者は富み

aokikenji.com/tao-33

Some chapters among my go-to on-line English translation aren't as obviously about enoughness for this thread.
> He who knows he has enough is rich.
and
wussu.com/laotzu/laotzu33.html
> A person who knows contentment has true wealth.
blog.mage8.com/roushi-33
Later I'll see Ursula LeGuin's work that avoids the gendered pronouns.

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bs2 · @bsmall2
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> To know when you have enough is to be immune from disgrace.
trans.
> 知足不辱。
> 足るを知れば辱(はずか)しめられず

aokikenji.com/tao-44

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bs2 · @bsmall2
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In the video Ayano-san talks of a Kotowaza proverb: (TaruWoSHiru): knowing what is enough. I've seen on-line memes about too, probably associated with Buddhism. Probably a universal idea and around long before writing, it may have first made it into documentation with .
> There is no calamity like not knowing what is enough
trans

> 故知足之足。常足矣。
> 故に足るを知るの足るは、常に足る。
aokikenji.com/tao-46

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