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What resists, persists.

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To know you have enough is to be rich.
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Country People Rich Simplicity
To lead, one must follow.
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Follow Leadership Must People Vlife
The ego is entranced by … names and ideas… However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.
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Block Concept Name Perception Wise
A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
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Multitudes Taoism Tiresome
He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
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Dispute Emotion Feelings Love
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
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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Deem Humorous Love Witty
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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Conquest Murder Rejoice
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
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Country Credit Giving Lead People Tke
What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
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Abandon Kings People Sell Taoism
Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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Enemy Human Inspirational Men
Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
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Envy Praise Prevent Taoism
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Criminal Law Taoism
One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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Inspirational Internal Peace Spiritual
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
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Fact Known Overcoming Practice
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Imperfect Perfection Taoism

What resists, persists.

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