There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
LAOZIMeet the big while it is small.
More Laozi Quotes
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Quarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
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Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.
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Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them… If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with humility. If he would lead them, he must follow behind. In this way when the sage rules, the people will not feel oppressed.
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Nature is not human hearted.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.
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Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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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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Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.
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Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
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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.
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I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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