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Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.

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
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
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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Beginning Children Mother Taoism
The Master doesn’t seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.
LAOZI

Able Feeling Taoism Together
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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Health Illness Knowledge Sage Taoism
The great image lacks shape.
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Condition Great Image Look Shape Taoism
Return animosity with virtue.
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Animosity Compassion Return Taoism
Make the small big and the few many.
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Big Few Make Small Taoism
If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
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Heart Home Nature Peace
Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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Brim Fill Halt Taoism Way
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.
LAOZI

Empty Entire Humility Little Succeed
Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
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Compassion Heart Humility World
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
Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.
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Death Escape Feel Forget Try
In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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Ignore Influence Negative Order
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
LAOZI

Fulfill Inspirational Leadership Wisdom

Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.

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