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Trustable words are not beautiful beautiful words are not trustable.

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There is no illusion great than fear.
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
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People aren't against you they are for themselves. The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty.
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The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be. The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.
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In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them in the next they despised them.
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Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.
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Nature is not human hearted.
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The truth often sounds paradoxical.
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If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.
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Its name-what passes not away.
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Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.
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The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
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Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.
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Even the longest journey must begin where you stand.
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To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.
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A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.
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Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
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When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will always win.
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