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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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Although things seem to be sometimes going up and sometimes descending, sometimes slipping away, nevertheless there is a reality, the same today as in the past. It does not change, for nothing can affect it. Could we not say it is one great harmony? So why shouldn't we ask about it.
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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent - herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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The love of a Sage for his fellows likewise finds expression amongst mankind. Were he not told sop, he would not know that he loved his fellows. But whether he knows it or whether he does not know it, whether he hears it or whether he does not hear it, his love for his is without end, and mankind cease not to repose therein.
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Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop.
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Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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