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What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.

Laozi

A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
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Done Foolish Man Mad Result
The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
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Cheish Sage Taoism
Meet the difficult while it is easy.
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Difficult Easy Meet Taoism
What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
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Abandon Kings People Sell Taoism
I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.
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Knowledge Mind Understanding
There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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Earth Finish Heaven Something Taoism
In 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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Age Next People Praise
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
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Idea Past Possessed Truth
All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
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Desire Men Taoism Themselves
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
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
Meet the big while it is small.
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Big People Small Taoism
The ego is entranced by … names and ideas… However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.
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Block Concept Name Perception Wise
To know you have enough is to be rich.
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Country People Rich Simplicity
The wise man knows without traveling.
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Know Man Travel Wise
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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