“The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.”
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“Recompense hatred with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.”
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
“The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.”
“In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will know the man.”
“The Tao is called the Great Mother: empty yet inexhaustible, it gives birth to infinite worlds.”
“Thirty spokes unite at the single hub; it is the empty space which makes the wheel useful.”
“The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand.”
“A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day.”
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.”
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”
“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
“By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go.”
“The Tao nourishes by not forcing. By not dominating, the Master leads.”
“The more prohibitions that are imposed on people, the poorer the people become.”
“Therefore the Sage embraces the One, and becomes the model of the world.”
“The sage wears coarse clothing over his shoulders, but carries jade within his bosom.”
“Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.”