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

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Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised.

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Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

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Learn from the people. Plan with the people. Begin with what they have. Build on what they know.

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Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

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The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.

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The way of heaven is to help and not harm.

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A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

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Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.

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Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

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When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.

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The value of actions lies in their timing.

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Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.

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I find good people good And I find bad people good If I am good enough.

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He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

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Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.

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Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?

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All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

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No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.

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The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

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