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He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

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Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People's Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive.

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Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

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Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.

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Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.

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When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.

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The most able seems clumsy.

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.

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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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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

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The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

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Those who are self-righteous are not prominent.

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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.

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Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising by returning to itself, winning victories by remaining gentle and yielding, it is softer than anything, and therefore overcomes everything hard.

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When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

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Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.

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To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

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Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?

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Thirty spokes meet in the hub, but the empty space between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay, but the empty space within it is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, but the empty space within it is the essence of the home.

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