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When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty.

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Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one's downfall.

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He who regards many things easy will find many difficulties. Therefore the sage regards things difficult, and consequently never has difficulties.

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Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.

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Make the small big and the few many.

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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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Justice has long arm.

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People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.

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When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

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The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.

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The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

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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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Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.

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The truest sayings are paradoxical.

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He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

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He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.

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Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status.

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Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find, And those who reform will be forgiven; Why the good will be rewarded, And the thief who is cunning will escape.

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Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.

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But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility, and aim only at being first. Therefore they shall surely perish.

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