"What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation."
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"Therefore: In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in leading, be just, in working, be competent, in acting, choose the correct timing. Follow these words and there will be no error."
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"It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend."
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"Filling life exceedingly is called ominous."
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"Things are not worth attending to, yet they have to be attended to."
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"Between yea and nay, how much difference is there?"
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"Dualistic thinking is a sickness."
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"The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them."
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"The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war."
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"Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!"
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"No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure."
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"The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness."
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"Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven."
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"He who knows, knows not. He who knows not, knows."
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"Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely meshed, yet nothing slips through."
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"A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei)."
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"The wise man knows he doesn't know."
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"The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is."
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"Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs."
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"Gain or loss, what is worse?"
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