Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
ZHUANGZIHe 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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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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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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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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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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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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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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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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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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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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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels. Such is the real nature of horses.
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Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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