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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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Complete Empty Full Religion Source
Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Alone Goodness Result
The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.
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Division Fast Forget Hold People Return See
When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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Action Transformation Word World
The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
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Greatness Mindset Person Tragedy
A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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Different Power Stop Wall
A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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Greatness Nation Prison Rule
There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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Clear Dangerous Eyes Greatness Heart Sharp
The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Employment Himself Man Mindset Mirror Perfection
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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Awake Born Calm Death Quiet Sleep
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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Butterfly Dreams Man Myself
To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Form Human Joy
Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.
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Born Compare Death Life Possible
The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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Beautiful Description Nature World
When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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Forget Heart Right
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Happiness Philosophy Ultimate

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