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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

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Stillness overcomes heat.

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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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It's hard to keep your balance standing tip-toe.

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The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

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Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.

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The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.

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Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.

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The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge

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The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

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In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally the age When rulers are hated.

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Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.

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The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could venter themselves in it, the whole world would be transformed by itself, in its natural rhythms. People would be content with their simple, everyday lives, in harmony, and free of desire. When there is no desire, all things are at peace.

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

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The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

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

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He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good.

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Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

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When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

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