Keep your mouth shut, guard your senses, and you will be free from trouble. Open your mouth, always be busy, and you will be beyond hope.
Founder of Taoism
Daodejing, Chapter 52
c. 6th-4th century BCE
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"The sage attends to the inner and not to the outer."
Philosophical"Therefore even the sage treats some things as difficult. That is why in the end no difficulties can get the better of him."
Philosophical"Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy."
Humorous"The people are hungry: it is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes."
Controversial"To yield is to be preserved whole. To be bent is to be straightened. To be empty is to be filled. To be worn out is to be renewed. To have little is to gain. To have plenty is to be perplexed."
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