He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
ZHUANGZIThe ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
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