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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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Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.

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Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.

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Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

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The highest tone is hard to hear.

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Seal the openings, shut the doors, and until your last day you will not be exhausted. Widen the openings, interfere, and until your last day you will not be safe.

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A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

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Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

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The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.

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The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.

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Nature is not human hearted.

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The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.

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When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it would be unworthy of being the Way.

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If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.

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My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.

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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

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If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.

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Words have divided man from woman, one from another, this from that, until only sages know how to put things together. Without words, without even understanding, lovers find each other. The moment of finding is always a surprise, like meeting an old friend never before known.

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Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.

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Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death lightly.

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