Laozi Quotes, Wise Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!

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To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.

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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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Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish.

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Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.

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Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.

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Without stepping out the door, you can know the world.

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If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.

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Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

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The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.

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Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

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Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.

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To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.

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Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not that it isn't there, but you'll be able to step out of its way. Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

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When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise.

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Who is unhappy with little, won't be with much; who doesn't appreciate the small won't be able to take care of the large; who doesn't have enough with enough is at the margin or virtue, for the physical body lives from one day to another and if it gets what it really needs, there will be time for meditation, as long as if we try to give it everything it desires, endless will be the task.

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Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.

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Those who know when to halt are unharmed.

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He who regards many things easy will find many difficulties. Therefore the sage regards things difficult, and consequently never has difficulties.

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Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth.

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