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The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.
Human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless.
A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.
Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.
A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.
Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.
Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.
There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.
The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
The man of true greatness never loses his child's heart.
The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.
Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.
Emotions become more violent when expression is stifled.
The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.
The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.
Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.
Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.
There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.
I know what a good man is because I saw it in my father.
God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.
Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.
Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.
For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.
The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.