"Make the small big and the few many."
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"He who knows himself is enlightened."
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"Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it."
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"True words seem false."
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"The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there."
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"Yielding is the way of the Tao."
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"Not praising the deserving prevents envy."
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"What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening."
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"The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance."
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"The sage acts by doing nothing."
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"What should be shrunken must first be stretched."
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"Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained."
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"All things arise in unison. Thereby we see their return."
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"But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day."
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"The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting."
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"Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath."
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"Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?"
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"The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience."
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"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."
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"That so few understand me is why I am treasured."
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