When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.
LAOZISimplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it’s own accord.
More Laozi Quotes
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Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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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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Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
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In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
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Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
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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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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
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Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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Health is the greatest possession.
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A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
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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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The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
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