What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.
LAOZIThe 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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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.
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Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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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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Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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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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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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To lead, one must follow.
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With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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What resists, persists.
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