The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
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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The world’s beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
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Meet the difficult while it is easy.
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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.
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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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The sage acts by doing nothing.
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A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
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…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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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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A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
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Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
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Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
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Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
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Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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The farther you go, the less you know.
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An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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