To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
LAOZIThe weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.
More Laozi Quotes
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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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What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
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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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A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
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Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.
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With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
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An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
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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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I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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Meet the big while it is small.
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Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
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The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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Return animosity with virtue.
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Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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