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True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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Clear Precise Shallow True Understand Wisdom Word
The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.
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Condition Life Man Natural River Way
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Absence Luck Principle
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.
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Calm Earth Heaven Purity
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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Fine Philosophy Rest Understand
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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Awake Born Calm Death Quiet Sleep
The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Easy Forget Journey Right Way
There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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Beginning Philosophy
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
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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Affirmation Attachment Negative Oneself Religious
Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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God Himself Man Reward Work
Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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Break Greatness Knowledge Oneself Small
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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Chaos Doubt Priest
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
Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
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Anxiety Condition Follow Mindset Religious
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Earth Life Nature Return

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