"Those who stand on their toes are not steady."
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"The Way that can be walked is not the eternal Way."
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"Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored."
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"Meet the big while it is small."
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"What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?"
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"The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible, like an abyss!"
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"The first practice is the practice of undiscriminating virtue: take care of those who are deserving; also, and equally, take care of those who are not. When you extend your virtue in all directions without discriminating, you feet are firmly planted on the path that returns to the Tao."
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"The Tao of the sage is work without effort."
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"When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving."
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"The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be?"
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"The grandest virtue seems deficient."
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"The Tao is like a well; used but never used up."
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"The love of a Sage for his fellows likewise finds expression amongst mankind. Were he not told sop, he would not know that he loved his fellows. But whether he knows it or whether he does not know it, whether he hears it or whether he does not hear it, his love for his is without end, and mankind cease not to repose therein."
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"An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest."
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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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"The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet."
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"The great image lacks shape."
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"All things carry yin and embrace yang. They reach harmony by blending with the vital breath."
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"So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants."
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"Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly."
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