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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Laozi

Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
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Loss More Require Taoism
Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
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Enough Know Misfortune
With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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Conque Peace Power World
Excellent warriors are not violent.
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Excellent Taoism Violent Warrior
The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
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Mourn Triumph Weapon
When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
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Animal Intelligent Separate Soul
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
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
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Idea Past Possessed Truth
When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.
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Average Believe Diligently Practice
Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.
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Death Escape Feel Forget Try
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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Heaven Mean Vision
In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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Ignore Influence Negative Order
No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Disaster Tao Taoism
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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Care Clay Form Space Vessel
Return animosity with virtue.
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Animosity Compassion Return Taoism
Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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Brim Fill Halt Taoism Way

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