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Laozi Philosopher

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"Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost."

Lost Greed Taoism

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"The highest tone is hard to hear."

Hard Taoism Tone

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"The truest sayings are paradoxical."

Taoism Truest Paradoxical

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"The Tao's principle is spontaneity."

Principles Taoism Tao

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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."

Strong Overcoming Taoism

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"The way of heaven is to help and not harm."

Way Heaven Taoism

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"Those who are content suffer no disgrace."

Suffering Taoism Disgrace

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"The highest benevolence acts without purpose."

Purpose Compassion Taoism

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"Heaven and Earth are not kind. They regard all things as offerings."

Heaven Taoism Offering

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"When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise."

Taoism Arise Abandoned

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"There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth."

Heaven Earth Taoism

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"Cautious, like crossing a river in the winter."

Rivers Winter Taoism

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"Excellent leaders of people lower themselves."

People Leader Taoism

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"If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man?"

Men Heaven Taoism

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"People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge."

People Knowledge Taoism

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"The greatest virtue is to follow the Way utterly."

Way Virtue Taoism

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"Behave simply and hold on to purity."

Taoism Purity Behave

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"Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal."

World Virtue Taoism

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"Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?"

Order Taoism Excess

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"From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all."

Names Lost Taoism

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