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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

~Lao Tzu

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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

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Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

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All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

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Biography

Nationality: Chinese

Type: Philosopher

Born: Unknown

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