Laozi Quotes - Page 27

• Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.

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  Thieves, Virtue

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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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  Animal, Intelligent, Soul

  Colin Bradshaw-Jones, Laozi, Lao Tzu (2006). “The Tao Te Ching, Eighty-one Maxims from the Father of Taoism”, p.19, Lulu.com

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• If you really want everything, then give up everything.

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  Giving Up, Giving, Want

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• Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.

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  Strength, Loss, Way

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The farther you go, the less you know.

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  Knows, Tao Te Ching Leadership, Tao Wisdom

  Laozi, Herrymon Maurer (1985). “Tao , the way of the ways”, Schocken

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• The world's big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.

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  Humble, Attention, Done

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• He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.

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  Inspirational, Giving Up, Enough

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• The Tao's principle is spontaneity.

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  Taoism, Principles, Tao

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• Nature doesn't make long speeches.

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  Nature, Long, Speech

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• Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.

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  Earth, Shapes, Succeed

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• The ancient Masters didn't try to educate the people, but kindly taught them to not-know. When they think that they know the answers, people are difficult to guide. When they know that they don't know, people can find their own way. If you want to learn how to govern, avoid being clever or rich. The simplest pattern is the clearest. Content with an ordinary life, you can show all people the way back to their own true nature.

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  Clever, Thinking, People

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• A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

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  Men, Hair, Tree

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• The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

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  Leadership, People, Confusion

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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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  Inspirational, Accomplishment, Taoism

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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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  Mourning, Triumph, Weapons

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• The best way to carve is not to split.

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  Taoism, Splits, Way

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• Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions.

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  Taoism, Manipulation, Action

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• If princes and kings could follow it (Tao), all things would by themselves abide, Heaven and Earth would unite and sweet dew would fall. People would by themselves find harmony, without being commanded.

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  Sweet, Kings, Fall

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• The sage acts by doing nothing.

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  Taoism, Sage, Doing Nothing

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• Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.

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  Wise, Danger, Traveler

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• Gain or loss, what is worse?

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  Loss, Taoism, Gains

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• Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

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  Inspirational, Positivity, Intelligent

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.57, Jain Publishing Company

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• Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.

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  Animal, Covenant, Gentle

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• A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is akin to Tao. . . . In all the earth nothing weaker than water, Yet in attacking the hard, nothing superior, Nothing so certain in wearing down strength: There is no way to resist it. Note then: The weak conquer the strong, The yielding outlast the aggressors.

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  Strength, Strong, Men

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• The Tao is told is not the Tao.

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  Taoism, Tao

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