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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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God Himself Man Reward Work
The ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.
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Body Death Life Share Store
A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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Bright Confusion Doubt Light Sage
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
To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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Ignorance Knowledge True Yourself
He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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Carry Growth Himself Lose Machine Work
The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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Breathe Clear Man Old
Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
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Heart Mindset Soul Understand Yourself
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Beginning Born Death End
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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Mad Man Negative Positive
The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Employment Himself Man Mindset Mirror Perfection
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Chaos Doubt Priest
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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Affect Ceremony Charity Donation Lost Man Mindset Music Nature Original Satisfaction Seek
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
You are still guided by your expectations.
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Expectation Guide Yourself

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

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