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Battles are followed by years of famine.
Who can rest until the moment of action?
The world is won by those who let it go.
Use your light, but dim your brightness.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.
To know and not to do is not yet to know.
The progress of the Way seems retreating.
Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil.
A whale out of water is over-run by ants.
To rule by knowledge ravages the country.
The longer you travel, the less you know.
What's the difference between yes and no?
When everyone sees good, then bad exists.
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
Those who know when to halt are unharmed.
Those who are content suffer no disgrace.
Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
Holding on to the weak is called strength.
The way of heaven is to help and not harm.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Those who stay where they are will endure.
What is and what is not create each other.
The value of actions lies in their timing.
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
When taxes are too high, people go hungry.
Searching for precious goods leads astray.
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
The more you know the less you understand.
What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out
To have enough of enough is always enough.
It is fitting for a great nation to yield.
What is well planted will not be uprooted.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.
Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.
I observe myself and I come to know others.
Those who praise themselves do not prevail.
The highest truth cannot be put into words.
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.
Wise men hear and see as little children do.
He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.
Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.
Deal with the small before it becomes large.
Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.
The Tao principle is what happens of itself.
The sage's Way is to act and not to contend.