老子道德经(英译本)Lao Tze 30. Violence

作者：《Lao Tze》李耳

• Powerful men are well advised not to use violence,
  For violence has a habit of returning;
  Thorns and weeds grow wherever an army goes,
  And lean years follow a great war.
  
  A general is well advised
  To achieve nothing more than his orders:
  Not to take advantage of his victory.
  Nor to glory, boast or pride himself;
  To do what is dictated by necessity,
  But not by choice.
  
  For even the strongest force will weaken with time,
  And then its violence will return, and kill it.