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Meandering leads to perfection.

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To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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Conquest Murder Rejoice
Return animosity with virtue.
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Animosity Compassion Return Taoism
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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Health Illness Knowledge Sage Taoism
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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Ching Country People Give Life Taoism
The great image lacks shape.
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Condition Great Image Look Shape Taoism
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
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
Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.
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Breathtaking Themselves Wisdom Wise
Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
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Deed Honor Marketplace Men
All action begins in rest… This is the ultimate truth.
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Action Truth Ultimate
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.
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Baggage Emotion Grievance Past
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Imperfect Perfection Taoism
Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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Depth Heart Inspirational Kindness
The sage acts by doing nothing.
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Done Nothing Sage Taoism
When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people’s hearts.
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Heart Love People Realize
The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
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Mourn Triumph Weapon

Meandering leads to perfection.

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