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We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from birth to death are also three out of ten. Why is that so? Because they want to make too much of life.
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Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
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When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.
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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.
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The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.
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We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.
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The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to all things... The complete whole is the complete whole. So also is any part the complete whole... But forget about understanding and harmonizing and making all things one. The universe is already a harmonious oneness just realize it.
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If you want to know me, look inside your heart.
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Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight
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A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.
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He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.
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The great image lacks shape.
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Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.
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The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.
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To rule by knowledge ravages the country.
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When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses, remain still and offer the Way.
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When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty.
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