"A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task."
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"Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!"
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"When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao."
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"Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges."
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"All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao."
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"Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation."
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"Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself."
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"Every step is on the path."
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"All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life."
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"The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world."
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"Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way."
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"Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?"
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"Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose."
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"He who does not trust enough will not be trusted."
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"Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect."
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"Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world."
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"Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear."
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"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name."
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"To have enough of enough is always enough."
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"The Master's power is like this. He lets all things come and go effortlessly, without desire. He never expects results; thus he is never disappointed. He is never disappointed; thus his spirit never grows old."
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