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The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.

Laozi

Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Great Mountain Move River
Excellent warriors are not violent.
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Excellent Taoism Violent Warrior
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
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 Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.
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Abandon Accomplishment Inspirational
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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Fail Loses Seize 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
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Criminal Law Taoism
The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
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Courses Go Letting World
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
Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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Depth Heart Inspirational Kindness
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
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Self Esteem Spiritual Wisdom
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
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Mastery Principles Superior Triumph
To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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Conquest Murder Rejoice
I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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Compassion Home Lack Taoism
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Artist Good Intuition Need Person

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