"The best fighter is never angry."
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"Nurture the spontaneous peaceful life."
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"The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness."
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"Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end."
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"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be."
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"The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao."
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"Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?"
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"A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone."
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"No disaster is worse than being discontented."
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"People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge."
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"Movement overcomes cold."
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"Strong winds do not last all morning, hard rains do not last all day."
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"When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality."
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"Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast."
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"Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way."
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"Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy."
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"He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince."
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"It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be."
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"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good."
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"An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox."
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