The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
LAOZIQuarrel with a friend – and you are both wrong.
More Laozi Quotes
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I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
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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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If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
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Meet the big while it is small.
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The light of the Way seems dim.
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Return animosity with virtue.
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No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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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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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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. . . 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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The world’s big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
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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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To lead, one must follow.
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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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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