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A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

Laozi

Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
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Deed Honor Marketplace Men
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
LAOZI

Country Law People Taoism
Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
LAOZI

Enough Know Misfortune
The great image lacks shape.
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Condition Great Image Look Shape Taoism
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
LAOZI

Criminal Law Taoism
The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.
LAOZI

Lying Mystery Stillness Water
The 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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Heart Matter People Trying Vice
Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Friendship Quarrel Wrong
The light of the Way seems dim.
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Dim Light Reflection Taoism Way
If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
LAOZI

Forever Heart Letting Surround
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
LAOZI

Crouch Happiness Misery
A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
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Care Clay Form Space Vessel
Every step is on the path.
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Every Follow Journey Path Step Taoism
The wise man knows without traveling.
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Know Man Travel Wise
What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
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Abandon Kings People Sell Taoism
Meet the big while it is small.
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Big People Small Taoism

A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

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