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The great Tao flows everywhere. All things are born from it, yet it doesn't create them. It pours itself into its work, yet it makes no claim. It nourishes infinite worlds, yet it doesn't hold on to them. Since it is merged with all things and hidden in their hearts, it can be called humble. Since all things vanish into it and it alone endures, it can be called great. It isn't aware of its greatness; thus it is truly great.

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The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.

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The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.

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The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.

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Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

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The master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao.

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The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty.

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Nothing and no one in the world is valuable or worthless.

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A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.

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Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

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The brittle is easy to shatter.

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The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.

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There is no illusion great than fear.

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A violent wind does not last for a whole morning.

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What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.

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By not claiming to be first in the world one can rule.

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He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.

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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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Because he is a living divinity, when he acts, the universe acts.

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Stillness overcomes heat.

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