Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength
LAOZIMeet the big while it is small.
More Laozi Quotes
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When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.
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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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What resists, persists.
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Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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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.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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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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Nature is not human hearted.
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All action begins in rest… This is the ultimate truth.
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Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.
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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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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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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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Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
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Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
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