The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
LAOZIPerfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
More Laozi Quotes
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Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
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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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Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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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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Wear down to be renewed.
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To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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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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Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.
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Excellent warriors are not violent.
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A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
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The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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Nature is not human hearted.
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Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
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