"Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue."
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"The truest sayings are paradoxical."
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"Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony."
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"Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows."
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"To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge."
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"Confidence is the greatest friend."
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"The Tao's principle is spontaneity."
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"The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it."
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"Nature doesn't make long speeches."
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"The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty."
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"On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss."
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"He who regards many things easy will find many difficulties. Therefore the sage regards things difficult, and consequently never has difficulties."
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"Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing."
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"There are three layers to the universe. In the lower, Tai Ching, and the middle, Shan Ching, the hindrance of a physical bodily existence is required. Those who fail to live consistently in accord with the Tao reside here. In the upper, Yu Ching, there is only Tao: the bondage of form is broken, and the only thing existing is the exquisite energy dance of the immortal divine beings."
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"The way of heaven is to help and not harm."
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"As for the "proper way:" it is the beginning of disorder."
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"The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself."
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"He does not struggle with anyone - thus no one can vanquish him."
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"Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way."
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"Those who are content suffer no disgrace."
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