"Keeping plenty of gold and jade in..." - Quote by Lao Tzu
Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.
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“Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.”
“Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.”
“In work, do what you enjoy.”
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“The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.”
“Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.”
“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.”
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“Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.”
“The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.”
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