"When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head."
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"The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness."
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"The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade."
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"The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies."
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"The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete."
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"One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage."
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"The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be."
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"Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great,And thereby the great is achieved."
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"The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees."
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"Do not believe what you have heard Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations Do not believe in anything that has been spoken of many times Do not believe because the written statements come from some old sage Do not believe in conjecture Do not believe in authority, or teachers, or elders But after careful observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it."
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"The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest."
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"Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?"
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"Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,Whose truths electrify the sage."
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"Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as "they" might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel."
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"The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often ignorant of religion, because they too read the wrong book-the book outside."
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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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"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."
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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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"He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good."
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"What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult."
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