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All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?

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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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Acceptance Man Object Reality Rejoice Tolerance World
Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
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Alone Goodness Result
The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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Discrimination Embrace Failure Man Myself Ordinary See
To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Form Human Joy
Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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Knowledge Known Perfection Philosophy Religious Spirituality Study True Unknown
When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.
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Affair Attraction Control Drive Forget Freedom Heart Man Philosophy Shoe Spirituality Yourself
There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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Beginning Philosophy
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
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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Gradual Opinion Ourselves Perspective Point View
Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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Awake Easy Fools Imagination Reality Understand
Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Enough Nature Necessary
Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
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Establishment Fact Right Word Yourself
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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Calm Mindset Water
All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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Lost Man Need Religion Water
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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Deep Man Mirror Run Water
To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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Bliss Count Form Happiness Human Joy Source Transition

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