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Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.

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Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
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Gain Inspirational Lose People Some
The sage acts by doing nothing.
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Done Nothing Sage 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
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Imperfect Perfection Taoism
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
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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Flame Inspirational Long Philosophy
Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
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Animal Empty Everything Fall Nature
Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength
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Motivational Strength Wisdom
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
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
Meet the difficult while it is easy.
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Difficult Easy Meet 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
Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
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Action Begun Establish Happen Order
Wear down to be renewed.
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Country Life People Renew Taoism
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
Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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Country Life People Taoism Thinking

Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.

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