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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground.
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The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.
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He who knows does not speak.
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Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.
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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.
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To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.
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Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.
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Arms are instruments of ill omen. . . . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. . . . When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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To know that you do not know is the best.
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When armies are mobilized and issues are joined,
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I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:
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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
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The more laws and order are made prominent,
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There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
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When the highest type of men hear Tao,
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He who knows others is wise;
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To be worn out is to be renewed.
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To have little is to possess.
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Manifest plainness,
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He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.
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To produce things and to rear them,
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