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The farther you go, the less you know.
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Country Emotion Knows Leadership People Wisdom
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
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
To lead, one must follow.
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Follow Leadership Must People Vlife
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
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
A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
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Care Clay Form Space Vessel
There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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Earth Finish Heaven Something Taoism
In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
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Give Knowledge Ignorant People
Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Friendship Quarrel Wrong
The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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Accomplish Doing Master Nothing
Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness
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Emptiness Inspirational Mind
All action begins in rest… This is the ultimate truth.
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Action Truth Ultimate
The light of the Way seems dim.
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Dim Light Reflection Taoism Way
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Criminal Law Taoism
One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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Inspirational Internal Peace Spiritual

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