Laozi Quotes, Horse Quotes, War Quotes

When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.

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Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.

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Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever.

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Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

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Act without expectation.

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Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!

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Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

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The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.

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Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.

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By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal.

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Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

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Be truly whole, and all things will return to you.

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When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'.

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Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing. Throw away industry and profit, and there won't be any thieves. If these three aren't enough, just stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course.

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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.

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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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A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

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Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.

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What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.

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In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.

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