Your name or your person, which is dearer?
Your person or your goods, which is worth more?
Gain or loss, which is the greater bane?
Excessive stinginess is sure to lead to great expense;
too much store is sure to end in immense loss.
Knowing contentment you will suffer no humiliation;
knowing when to stop you will be free from danger;
you will thereby endure.
from Te Ching, trans D.C. Lau
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