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There is no greater crime than desire.
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When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.
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The best fighter is never angry.
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Confidence is the greatest friend.
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I do not know its name. I call it the Way. For the lack of better words I call it great.
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The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.
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Those who are content suffer no disgrace.
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Allow your softer, more intuitive, and less dominating feminine qualities to rise to the fore, so that you're surrendering rather than dominating, receiving rather than broadcasting, loving rather than fighting.
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Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.
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From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.
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The farther you go, the less you know.
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Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.
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If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
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So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.
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Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.
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The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.
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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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Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.
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In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
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The Way to do is to be.
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The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.
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If you really want everything, then give up everything.
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Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.
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Although there are weapons for tens and hundreds of soldiers, they will not be used.
Lao Tzu