Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
LAOZINever 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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The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.
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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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I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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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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When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
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If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
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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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When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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The light of the Way seems dim.
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