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Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

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My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.
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Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.
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I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves.
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Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work profane? Then your mind is separated: from itself, from oneness, from the Tao.
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He who walks on tip-toe does not walk on solid ground.
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There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.
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Health is the greatest possession.
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When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United.
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He who steals a hook shall be hanged while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince.
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Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.
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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
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The most straight seems curved.
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He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.
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To have enough of enough is always enough.
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Sincere words are not fine fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it) the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively learned the extensively learned do not know it.
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Those who take long steps cannot keep the pace.
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Justice has long arm.
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Be as the still mountain Move like the great river.
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Man, when living, is soft and tender when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender and delicate when dead they become withered and dry. Therefore it is said: the hard and tough are parts of death the soft and tender are parts of life.
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