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Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.

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If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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Heart Home Nature Peace
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
Excellent warriors are not violent.
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Excellent Taoism Violent Warrior
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.
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Dream Opportunity Success Weed
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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Fail Loses Seize Taoism
There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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Earth Finish Heaven Something Taoism
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
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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Powerful Strength Strong Victory
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Crouch Happiness Misery
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
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
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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Flame Inspirational Long Philosophy
What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.
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Good Intelligent Job Man Teacher
With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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Conque Peace Power World
An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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Accomplish Action Inspirational Integral
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

Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.

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Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.

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