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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. When rich speculators prosper While farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures; when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible while the poor have nowhere to turn- all this is robbery and chaos. It is not in keeping with the Tao."
"The highest benevolence acts without purpose."
"Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason."
"The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance."
"Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way."
"People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die."
"A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!"
"Heaven and Earth are not kind. They regard all things as offerings."
"Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out."
"Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men."
"Whoever is planted in the Tao will not be rooted up. Whoever embraces the Tao will not slip away. Her name will be held in honor from generation to generation. Let the Tao be present in your life and you will become genuine. Let it be present in your family and your family will flourish. Let it be present in your country and your country will be an example to all countries in the world. Let it be present in the universe and the universe will sing. How do I know this is true? By looking inside myself."
"The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man."
"The inner is the foundation of the outer. The still is master of the restless. The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner treasure."
"When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise."
"Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone."
"The wise person dines on something more subtle: He eats the understanding that the named was born from the unnamed, that all being flows from non-being, that the describable world emanates from an indescribable source."
"To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter."
"There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth."
"Cautious, like crossing a river in the winter."
"He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child."