折疑論 5.7

5.7

老子云。上士聞道勤而行之。中士聞道若存若亡。下士聞道大笑之（上士唯智非愚勤行於道。中士聞其道則可上可下矣。下士唯愚非智返笑聖道。故上士悟。中士疑。下士迷）。

'Laozi said: "When the superior person hears of the Way, he diligently practices it. When the middling person hears of the Way, it is as though it exists and as though it does not. When the inferior person hears of the Way, he laughs loudly at it." (The superior person has only wisdom and not folly, and diligently practices the Way. When the middling person hears of the Way, he can go up or down. The inferior person has only folly and not wisdom, and turns around to laugh at the sage's Way. Hence the superior person awakens, the middling person doubts, and the inferior person remains deluded.)