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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.

Laozi

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man’s tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
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Choice Instrument Men Tool Weapon Wise
In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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Ignore Influence Negative Order
The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.
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Lying Mystery Stillness Water
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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Deep Honor Inspirational Life
Return animosity with virtue.
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Animosity Compassion Return Taoism
No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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Disaster Tao Taoism
An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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Accomplish Action Inspirational Integral
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
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Artist Good Intuition Need Person
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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Country Law People Taoism
Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it’s own accord.
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Being Free Name Simplicity
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
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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Conquest Murder Rejoice
Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
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Gain Inspirational Lose People Some
I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.
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Knowledge Mind Understanding
A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
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Multitudes Taoism Tiresome

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