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The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.

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The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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Condition Life Man Natural River Way
He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
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Himself Infinite Nature Oneself Regard Whole
Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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Enemy Fools Mistake Realize
The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.
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Ancient Existence Knowledge Point Reach Time
We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
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Body Chance Endurance Escape Freedom Joy Possession Sage Transformation World
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Absence Luck Principle
Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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Flow Spiritual Struggle Universe Yourself
Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
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Beginning Born Death Existence Limitation Philosophy Spiritual Start
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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Gradual Opinion Ourselves Perspective Point View
Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it.
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Admire Judgement Man Strength Walk Way
The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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Beautiful Description Nature World
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Education Form Low Punishment Reward
People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
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Guide Knowledge Order People Reach Value
The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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Discrimination Embrace Failure Man Myself Ordinary See
To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Form Human Joy
There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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Beginning Philosophy

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