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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.

Laozi

The wise man knows without traveling.
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Know Man Travel Wise
Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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Brim Fill Halt Taoism Way
See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.
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Compassion Country Taoism Town
Nature is not human hearted.
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Enlightening Hearted Nature
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
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
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Arrive Artist Change Good Intuition
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 laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Criminal Law Taoism
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.
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Empty Entire Humility Little Succeed
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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Being Hard Time Stay Strong
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Artist Good Intuition Need Person
To know you have enough is to be rich.
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Country People Rich Simplicity
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
Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength
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Motivational Strength Wisdom
The wise man knows he doesn’t know.
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Clevar Know Men Understand Wise

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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