Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
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Your own self is your master; who else could be? With yourself well controlled, you gain a master very hard to find.
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
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Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.
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One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand men on the battlefield. Be victorious over yourself and not over others.
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Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words.
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
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It is better to do nothing, than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.
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Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever’s not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.
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One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand men on the battlefield. Be victorious over yourself and not over others.
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They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed.
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As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.
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If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
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Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox.
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All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
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It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.
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Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
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