Laozi Quotes, Love Quotes, Inspirational Quotes

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

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He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

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A winner listens, a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk.

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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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Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.

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Those who know others are intelligent Those who know themselves have insight. Those who master others have force Those who master themselves have strength.Those who know what is enough are wealthy. Those who persevere have direction. Those who maintain their position endure. And those who die and yet do not perish, live on.

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It's hard to keep your balance standing tip-toe.

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The fish cannot leave the deep waters. The state's weaponry should not be displayed.

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The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.

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Health is the greatest possession.

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Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in "perfect equanimity" if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness.

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Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

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To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

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Nature is not human hearted.

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We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.

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The greatest virtue is to follow the Way utterly.

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Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

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The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it.

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By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.

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The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding.

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