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  • 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 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 XIX

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    Banish wisdom, discard knowledge, And the people will be benefited a hundredfold. Banish human kindness, discard morality, And the people will be dutiful and compassionate. Banish skill, discard profit, And thieves and robbers will disappear. If when these three things are done they find life too plain and unadorned, Then let them have accessories; Give…

  • Tao Te Ching XX

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    Between wei and o What after all is the difference? Can it be compared to the difference between good and bad? The saying “what others avoid I too must avoid” How false and superficial it is? All men, indeed, are wreathed in smiles, As though feasting after the Great Sacrifice, As though going up to…

  • Tao Te Ching XXI

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    Such the scope of the All-pervading Power. That it alone can act through the Way. For the Way is a thing impalpable, incommensurable. Incommensurable, impalpable. Yet latent in it are forms; Impalpable, incommensurable Yet within it are entities. Shadowy it is and DIM; Yet within it there is a force, Is none the less efficacious.…

  • Tao Te Ching XXII

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    “To remain whole, be twisted!” To become straight, let yourself be bent. To become full, be hollow. Be tattered, that you may be renewed. Those that have little, may get more, Those that have much, are but perplexed. Therefore the Sage Clasps the Primal Unity, Testing by it everything under heaven. He does not show…

  • 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 XXIV

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    He who stands on tip-toe, does not stand firm; He who takes the longest strides, does not walk the fastest. He who does his own looking sees little, He who defines himself is not therefore distinct. He who boasts of what he will do succeeds in nothing; He who is proud of his work, achieves…

  • Tao Te Ching XXV

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    There was something formless yet complete, That existed before heaven and earth; Without sound, without substance, Dependent on nothing, unchanging, All pervading, unfailing. One may think of it as the mother of all things under heaven. Its true name we do not know; Were I forced to say to what class of things it belongs…

  • Tao Te Ching XXVI

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    As the heavy must be the foundation of the light, So quietness is lord and master of activity. Truly, “A man of consequence though he travels all day Will not let himself be separated from his baggage-wagon, However magnificent the view, he sits quiet and dispassionate”. How much less, then, must be the lord of…

  • Tao Te Ching XXVII

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    Perfect activity leaves no track behind it; Perfect speech is like a jade-worker whose tool leaves no mark. The perfect reckoner needs no counting-slips; The perfect door has neither bolt nor bar, Yet cannot be opened. The perfect knot needs neither rope nor twine, Yet cannot be united. Therefore the Sage Is all the time…

  • Tao Te Ching XXVIII

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    “He who knows the males, yet cleaves to what is female Because like a ravine, receiving all things under heaven,” And being such a ravine He knows all the time a power that he never calls upon in vain. This is returning to the state of infancy. He who knows the white, [yet cleaves to…

  • Tao Te Ching XXIX

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    Those that would gain what is under heaven by tampering with it – I have seen that they do not succeed. For that which is under heaven is like a holy vessel, dangerous to tamper with. Those that tamper with it, harm it. Those that grab at it, lose it. For among the creatures of…

  • Tao Te Ching XXX

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    He who by Tao purposes to help a ruler of men Will oppose all conquest by force of arms; For such things are wont to rebound. Where armies are, thorn and brambles grow. The raising of a great host Is followed by a year of dearth. Therefore a good general effects his purpose and then…

  • Tao Te Ching XXXI

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    Fine weapons are none the less ill-omened things. [People despise them, therefore, Those in possession of the Tao do not depend on them.] That is why, among people of good birth, In peace the left-hand side is the place of honour, But in war this is reversed and the right-hand side is the place of…

  • Tao Te Ching XXXII

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    Tao is eternal, but has no fame [name]; The Uncarved Block, though seemingly of small account, Is greater than anything that is under heaven. If kings and barons would but possess themselves of it, The ten thousand creatures would flock to do them homage; Heaven-and-earth would conspire To send Sweet Dew, Without law or compulsion,…

  • 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…

  • Tao Te Ching XXXIV

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    Great Tao is like a boat that drifts; It can go this way; it can go that. The ten thousand creatures owe their existence to it and it does not disown them; Yet having produced them, it does not take possession of them. Makes no claim to be master over them, [And asks for nothing…

  • Tao Te Ching XXXV

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    He who holding the Great From goes about his work in the empire Can go about his, yet do no harm. All is peace, quietness and security. Sound of music, smell of good dishes Will make the passing stranger pause. How difference the words that Tao gives forth! So thin, so flavourless! If one looks…

  • Tao Te Ching XXXVI

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    What is in the end to be shrunk Must first be stretched. Whatever is to be weakened Must begin by being made strong. What is to be overthrown Must begin by being set up. He who would be a taker Must begin as a giver. This is called “dimming” one’s light. It is thus that…