吾言甚易知，甚易行。天下莫能知，莫能行。
1My words are very easy to know, and very easy to practise; but there is no one in the world who is able to know and able to practise them.
言有宗，事有君。
2There is an originating and all-comprehending (principle) in my words, and an authoritative law for the things (which I enforce).
夫唯无知，是以不我知。
3It is because they do not know these, that men do not know me.
知我者希，则我者贵。
4They who know me are few, and I am on that account (the more) to be prized.
是以圣人被褐而怀玉。
5It is thus that the sage wears (a poor garb of) hair cloth, while he carries his (signet of) jade in his bosom.