"Returning to the source is serenity."
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"To be worn out is to be renewed."
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"Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't."
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"To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good."
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"The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it"
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"He who is contented is rich."
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"A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet."
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"The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao."
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"Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever."
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"Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious."
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"Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it."
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"He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant."
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"When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will always win."
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"The Tao is like a well; used but never used up."
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"Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death lightly."
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"The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve."
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"Take care with the end as you do with the beginning"
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"The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies."
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"Going forward seems like retreat."
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"The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose."
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