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Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

By Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu was a legendary ancient Chinese philosopher estimated to have lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE. He is considered the author of the Tao Te Ching and founder of philosophical Taoism, a fundamental tradition of Chinese thought that prescribes living in harmony with the universe, called the Way (Tao).

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