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No disaster is worse than being discontented.

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Observe how endings become beginnings.

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If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength. If you know how to be satisfied you are rich. If you can act with vigor, you have a will. If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting. If you die without loss, you are eternal.

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The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female.

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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

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Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

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Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

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Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

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Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well. {But spiritual insight transcends death.}

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He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.

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It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.

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The unyielding army will not win.

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The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.

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Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

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When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise.

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Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.

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The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

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Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore benefit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there.

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