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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.

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You are still guided by your expectations.
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Expectation Guide Yourself
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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Known Men Utility
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Absence Happiness Perfection Wisdom
The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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Happiness Philosophy Ultimate
To have a human form is a joyful thing.
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Form Human Joy
For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Dangerous Knowledge Known
To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
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Charge Dangerous Solution Yourself
Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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Action Root Silence
Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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Cherish Curse Knowledge Yourself
Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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Beginning Born Death End
The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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Help Man Old Perfection
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
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Absence Luck Principle
The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.
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Easy Forget Journey Right Way
The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
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Capacity Clear Eyes Mindset Organ Wisdom
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
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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Attention Enlightenment Equality Mirror Respond Welcome

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