Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
ZHUANGZIHe who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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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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Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
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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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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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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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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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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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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 Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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