"The more sharp weapons people have in a country, the bigger the disorder will be."
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"Hold on to the great image, and the whole world follows, follows unharmed, content and completely at peace."
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"Those who know when it is enough will not perish."
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"Can you care for the people and rule the country and not be cunning?"
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"Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way."
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"If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown."
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"Filling life exceedingly is called ominous."
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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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"No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure."
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"Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely meshed, yet nothing slips through."
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"Gain or loss, what is worse?"
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"The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind."
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"I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves."
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"The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others."
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"By compassion one can be brave."
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"Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting."
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"I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to."
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"Pounding an edge to sharpness will not make it last."
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"A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot."
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"The brittle is easy to shatter."
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