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In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.
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Age Next People Praise
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.
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Fulfill Inspirational Leadership Wisdom
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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Health Illness Knowledge Sage Taoism
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Artist Good Intuition Need Person
Heavy is the root of light.
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heavy Light Root Taoism
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
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Heart Matter People Trying Vice
Health is the greatest possession.
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Health Possession Wealth
The world’s big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
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Attention Country Done Emotion Humble People
Meet the difficult while it is easy.
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Difficult Easy Meet 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
Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.
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Detours Distraction Oneness Spiritual
Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
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Action Begun Establish Happen Order
Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
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Compassion Heart Humility World
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
Nature is not human hearted.
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Enlightening Hearted Nature
The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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Accomplish Doing Master Nothing

Heavy is the root of light.

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