"People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge."
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"Movement overcomes cold."
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"Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast."
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"The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed."
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"Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic."
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"When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists."
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"Those who boast are not respected."
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"The biggest in the world is small in its beginning."
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"Abandon knowledge and your worries are over."
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"Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness."
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"Those who show off do not shine."
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"...the more you talk of it, the less you understand."
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"I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves."
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"(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things."
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"The Tao is near and people seek it far away."
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"Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force."
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"When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises."
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"If good happens, good; if bad happens, good."
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"Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him."
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"First and last follow each other."
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