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  • Tao Te Ching LXV

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    In the days of old those who practiced Tao with success did not, By means of it, Enlighten the people, but on the contrary sought to make them ignorant. The more knowledge people have, the harder they are to rule. Those who seek to rule by giving knowledge Are like bandits preying on the land.…

  • Tao Te Ching VI

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    The Valley Spirit never dies. It is named the Mysterious Female. And the doorway of the Mysterious Female Is the base from which Heaven and Earth sprang. It is there within us all the while; Draw upon it as you will, it never runs dry. A. La puissance expansive transcendante qui réside dans l’espace médian,…

  • Tao Te Ching XVII

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    Of the highest the people merely know that such a one exists; The next they draw near to and praise. The next they shrink from, intimidated; but revile. Truly, “It is by not believing people that you turn them into liars”. But from the Sage it is so hard at any price to get a…

  • Tao Te Ching XVI

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    Push far enough towards the Void, Hold fast enough to Quietness, And of the ten thousand things none but can be worked on by you. I have beheld them, whither they go back. See, all things howsoever they flourish Return to the root from which they grew. This return to the root is called Quietness;…

  • Tao Te Ching XV

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    Of old those that were the best officers of Court Had inner natures subtle, abstruse, mysterious, penetrating, Too deep to be understood. And because such men could not be understood I can but tell of them as they appeared to the world: Circumspect they seemed, like one who in winter crosses a stream, Watchful, as…

  • Tao Te Ching XIV

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    Because the eye gazes but can catch no glimpse of it, It is called elusive. Because the ear listens but cannot hear it, It is called the rarefied. Because the hand feels for it but cannot find it, It is called the infinitesimal. These three, because they cannot be further scrutinized, Blend into one, Its…

  • Tao Te Ching XIII

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    Favour and disgrace goad as it were to madness; High rank hurts keenly as our bodies hurt.” What does it mean to say that favour and disgrace goad as it were to madness? It means that when a rule’s subjects get it they turn distraught, When they lose it they turn distraught. That is what…

  • Tao Te Ching XII

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    The fives colours confuse the eye, The fives sounds dull the ear, The five tastes spoil the palate. Excess of hunting and chasing Makes minds go mad. Products that are hard to get Impede their owner’s movements. Therefore the Sage Considers the belly not the eye. Truly, “he rejects that but takes this”. A. La…

  • Tao Te Ching XI

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    Trinta raios unidos formam uma montagem de roda; sozinhos, são inutilizáveis: é o vazio QUE OS UNE, que faz deles uma roda de que se pode servir. Uma propriedade que se toca e que se pega é inutilizável: é o ar que a preenche que dela faz um bem o qual se pode usar. Construir,…

  • Tao Te Ching X

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    Can you keep the unquiet physical-soul from straying, Hold fast to the Unity, and never quit it? Can you, when concentrating your breath, Make it soft like that of a little child? Can you wipe and cleanse your vision of the Mystery till all is without blur? Can you love the people and rule the…

  • Tao Te Ching VIII

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    The highest good is like that of water. The goodness of is that it benefits the ten thousand creatures; Yet itself does not scramble, But is content with the places that all men disdain. It is this makes water so near to the Way. And if men think the ground the best place for building…

  • Tao Te Ching VII

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    Heaven is eternal, the Earth everlasting. How come they to be so? It is because they do not foster their own lives; That is why they live so long. Therefore the Sage Puts himself in the background; but is always to the fore. Remains outside; but is always there. Is it not just because he…

  • Tao Te Ching XVIII

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    Quando o grande Tao é esquecido, bondade e piedade aparecem. Quando a inteligência do corpo declina, esperteza e conhecimento dão um passo à frente. Quando não há paz na família, a piedade filial começa. Quando o país cai em caos, patriotismo nasce. It was when the Great Way declined That human kindness and morality arose;…

  • Tao Te Ching IV

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    The Way is like an empty vessel That yet may be drawn from Without ever needing to be filled. It is bottomless; the very progenitor of all things in the world. In it all sharpness is blunted, All tangles untied, All glare tempered, All dust soothed. It is like a deep pool that never dries.…

  • Tao Te Ching III

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    If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people’s minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know.…

  • Tao Te Ching XXIII

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    To be always talks is against nature. For the same reason a hurricane never lasts a whole morning, Nor a rainstorm all day. Who is it that makes the wind and rain? It is Heaven and Earth. And if even Heaven and Earth cannot blow or pour for long, How much less in his utterance…

  • Tao Te Ching IX

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    Stretch a bow to the very full, And you will wish you had stopped in time; Temper a sword-edge to its very sharpest, And you will find it soon grows dull. When bronze and jade fill your hall. It can no longer be guarded. Wealth and place breed insolence. That brings ruin in its train.…

  • Tao Te Ching II

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    Se Tudo sob o Céu vê o belo como belo, Isso é mau. Se todos vemos o bom como bom, Isso não é bom. Pois existência e não existência dão vida uma a outra, O fácil e o difícil produzem-se, O longo e o curto dão-se forma, O alto e o baixo se contrapõem, Som…

  • Tao Te Ching XLII

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    Tao gave birth to the One; The One gave birth successively to two things, Three things, up to ten thousand. These ten thousand creatures cannot turn their backs to the shade Without having the sun on their bellies, And it is on this blending of the breaths that their harmony depends. To be orphaned, needy,…

  • Tao Te Ching XXXIII

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    To understand others is to have knowledge; To understand oneself is to be illumined. To conquer others needs strength; To conquer oneself is harder still. To be content with what one has is to be rich. He that works through violence may get his way; But only what stays in its place Can endure. When…