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.
LAOZIThat the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
More Laozi Quotes
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No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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The great image lacks shape.
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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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Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength
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Nature is not human hearted.
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The farther you go, the less you know.
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The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.
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Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
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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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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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Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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