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Zhuangzi
Philosopher
Poet
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Peking
Zhuang Zi
Chuang Tzŭ
Chuang Tzu
Chuangtzŭ
Chuangtzu
Zhuang Zhou
Chuang Chou
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The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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...the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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The eyes envy the mind.
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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.
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The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.
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Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large!
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Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone
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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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