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The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.

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The great image lacks shape.
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Condition Great Image Look Shape Taoism
Wear down to be renewed.
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Country Life People Renew Taoism
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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Army Before Humility Leadership Other Put
The farther you go, the less you know.
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Country Emotion Knows Leadership People Wisdom
Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
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Behind Compassion Humility
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
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Self Esteem Spiritual Wisdom
Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.
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Action Begun Establish Happen Order
He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
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Enemy Friend Friendship Honor Men Unconcern
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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Animal Empty Everything Fall Nature
Health is the greatest possession.
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Health Possession Wealth
When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.
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Average Believe Diligently Practice
The light of the Way seems dim.
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Dim Light Reflection Taoism Way
The wise man knows without traveling.
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Know Man Travel Wise
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Artist Good Intuition Need Person
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Great Mountain Move River
If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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Heart Home Nature Peace

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