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The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

Laozi

The Master doesn’t seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.
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Able Feeling Taoism Together
Meandering leads to perfection.
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Hike Journey Meander Perfection
Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
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Deed Honor Marketplace Men
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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Ching Country People Give Life Taoism
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Great Mountain Move River
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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Army Before Humility Leadership Other Put
He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
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Dispute Emotion Feelings Love
The farther you go, the less you know.
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Country Emotion Knows Leadership People Wisdom
The world’s beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
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Beginning Children Mother Taoism
Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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Depth Heart Inspirational Kindness
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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Flame Inspirational Long Philosophy
The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.
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Lying Mystery Stillness Water
The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.
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Demand Depend Reach Taoism Thing Way
Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them… If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with humility. If he would lead them, he must follow behind. In this way when the sage rules, the people will not feel oppressed.
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Below Humility King Lying People
Make the small big and the few many.
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Big Few Make Small Taoism
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Imperfect Perfection Taoism

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