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All things flourish, and each returns to its source.

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To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.

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When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.

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Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those who increase their service along with their understanding can be called men and women of Tao.

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That which shrinks must first expand.

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The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.

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When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.

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The Way to do is to be.

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When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

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The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.

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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

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Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

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Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.

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If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.

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Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well. {But spiritual insight transcends death.}

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There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.

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The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.

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If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.

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To be worn out is to be renewed.

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Life and death are one thread.

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