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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

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When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.
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Beginning Enjoyment Himself Nervous Skill Target
Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
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Battle Intelligence Promise Sound Victory
He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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Himself Infinite Nature Oneself Regard Whole
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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Conflict Harmony Life Stop
The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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Ancient Existence Knowledge Point Reach Time
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Happiness Philosophy Ultimate
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Beginning Born Death End
The true man breathes with his heels.
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Breathe Heel Man One Liner Philosophy True
And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
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Death Hate Lost Man Myself Name Return Young
To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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Constant Happiness Nature Oneself Perfection Realize
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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Beautiful Existence Rare Regard Transformation Ugly Value
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Education Form Low Punishment Reward
The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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Condition Life Man Natural River Way
You are still guided by your expectations.
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Expectation Guide Yourself
If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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Life Point Purpose
Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
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Empty Heart Light Room Window

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

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