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.
LAOZIA tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
More Laozi Quotes
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When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
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The light of the Way seems dim.
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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 world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
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Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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The wise man knows he doesn’t know.
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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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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man’s tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
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The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.
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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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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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Excellent warriors are not violent.
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Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.
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