The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
LAOZIWeapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man’s tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
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If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
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Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
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To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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Wear down to be renewed.
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Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.
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Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.
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Return animosity with virtue.
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When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.
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He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
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