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Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.

Laozi

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
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Great Mountain Move River
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
What resists, persists.
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Emotions Feel Persist Resist
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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Deep Honor Inspirational Life
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
Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.
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Inspirational Problem Simple Small
In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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Ignore Influence Negative Order
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
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
Meandering leads to perfection.
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Hike Journey Meander Perfection
Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
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Loss More Require Taoism
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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Fail Loses Seize Taoism
When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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Book Country Life People
Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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Enemy Human Inspirational Men
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
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Arrive Artist Change Good Intuition

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