Meandering leads to perfection.
LAOZIIn the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.
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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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From caring comes courage.
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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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Every step is on the path.
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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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…the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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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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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
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Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
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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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Return animosity with virtue.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
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The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.
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