Return animosity with virtue.
LAOZIThe world’s beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
More Laozi Quotes
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Nature is not human hearted.
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When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.
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In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.
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Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Excellent warriors are not violent.
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What resists, persists.
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Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
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If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
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Make the small big and the few many.
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Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
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The wise man knows he doesn’t know.
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