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Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

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Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.

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Meandering leads to perfection.

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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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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

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I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no writings which will lead your mind back to Spirit. Today I speak this way, tomorrow that, but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.

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The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

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Can you open and close the gate of Heaven and act like a woman?

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The way is light and fluid for the man with no preferences.

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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.

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The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.

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Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities.

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The most straight seems curved.

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Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.

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. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.

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Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.

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It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

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ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

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When the world is ruled according to the Way, the ghosts lose their power. The ghosts do not really lose their power, but it is not used to harm people.

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When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.

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