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Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.
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Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.
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If you really want everything, then give up everything.
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When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.
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Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.
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The more you know the less you understand.
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The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.
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Those who know others are intelligent Those who know themselves have insight. Those who master others have force Those who master themselves have strength.Those who know what is enough are wealthy. Those who persevere have direction. Those who maintain their position endure. And those who die and yet do not perish, live on.
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A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
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Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.
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Going forward seems like retreat.
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Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.
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See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things.
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When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.
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He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.
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Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.
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Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.
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It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.
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For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.
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The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone.
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My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.
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Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.
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If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.
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