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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.

Laozi

Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
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Mastery Principles Superior Triumph
An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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Accomplish Action Inspirational Integral
The wise man knows he doesn’t know.
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Clevar Know Men Understand Wise
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
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Idea Past Possessed Truth
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Artist Good Intuition Need Person
In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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Ignore Influence Negative Order
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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Choice Instrument Men Tool Weapon Wise
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
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Fact Known Overcoming Practice
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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Fail Loses Seize Taoism
The farther you go, the less you know.
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Country Emotion Knows Leadership People Wisdom
Heavy is the root of light.
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heavy Light Root Taoism
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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Flame Inspirational Long Philosophy
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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REquired Take Taoism Temper World
If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
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Forever Heart Letting Surround
Wear down to be renewed.
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Country Life People Renew 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.
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Lying Mystery Stillness Water

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