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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.

Zhuangzi

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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Ignorance People Philosophy
I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.
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Listening Reckless Talk Try Word Yourself
Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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Awake Dreams Myself Yourself
Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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Cloud Follow Heaven Light Understand Wisdom Yourself
You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
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Creature Ocean Season Summer Talk Yourself
Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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Action Root Silence
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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Calm Mindset Water
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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Butterfly Dreams Man Myself
The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
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Hide Himself Man Perfection Person Respect Sight
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Enemy Fools Mistake Realize
The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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Discrimination Embrace Failure Man Myself Ordinary See
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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Calm Earth Heaven Purity
The sound of water says what I think.
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Myself Sound Thinking Water
Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.
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Automatic Body Care Strong Willing
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Known Men Utility
The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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Case Death Finding Live Pleasant Return

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