To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
ZHUANGZIHe who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
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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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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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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten.
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Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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