When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.
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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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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To lead, one must follow.
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What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
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Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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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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If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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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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The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
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The wise man knows without traveling.
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A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
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Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.
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I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.
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Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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