Every step is on the path.
LAOZIA scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
More Laozi Quotes
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One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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Excellent warriors are not violent.
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The great image lacks shape.
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In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
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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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To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.
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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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The light of the Way seems dim.
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With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
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To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
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Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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The farther you go, the less you know.
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A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
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Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.
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