Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
LAOZII am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
More Laozi Quotes
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Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.
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What resists, persists.
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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.
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Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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Make the small big and the few many.
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Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them… If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with humility. If he would lead them, he must follow behind. In this way when the sage rules, the people will not feel oppressed.
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To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.
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In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
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The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.
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When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
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The wise man knows without traveling.
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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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What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.
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He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
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One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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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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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
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A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
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The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.
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To know you have enough is to be rich.
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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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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
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