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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

Laozi

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
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 laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Criminal Law Taoism
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
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Country Law People Taoism
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
Make the small big and the few many.
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Big Few Make Small Taoism
Health is the greatest possession.
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Health Possession Wealth
All action begins in rest… This is the ultimate truth.
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Action Truth Ultimate
A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
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Acceptance Broken Heart Tree
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
In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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Ignore Influence Negative Order
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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Determination Motivational Smart
The sage acts by doing nothing.
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Done Nothing Sage 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
To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.
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Heaven Mean Vision
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.
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Fulfill Inspirational Leadership Wisdom

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