Laozi

Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.

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Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

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Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

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Silence is a source of great Strength.

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Simplicity without a name Is free from all external aim.

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Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

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So it is that some things are increased by being diminished, and others are diminished by being increased.

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Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.

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Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose

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