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The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

Laozi

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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Fulfill Inspirational Leadership Wisdom
The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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Accomplish Doing Master Nothing
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.
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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
Heavy is the root of light.
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To know you have enough is to be rich.
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Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Meet the difficult while it is easy.
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Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
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Desire Men Taoism Themselves
The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.
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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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…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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Brim Fill Halt Taoism Way
Wear down to be renewed.
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