The 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.
LAOZIWhat people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
More Laozi Quotes
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Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
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Return animosity with virtue.
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The world’s big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
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Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
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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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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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The light of the Way seems dim.
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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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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.
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Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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All action begins in rest… This is the ultimate truth.
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I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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From caring comes courage.
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