Laozi Quotes, Order Quotes, Profound Quotes

Profound virtue is indeed deep and wide. It leads all things back to the great order.

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The Master keeps her mind always at one with the Tao; that is what gives her her radiance. The Tao is ungraspable. How can her mind be at one with it? Because she doesn't cling to ideas. The Tao is dark and unfathomable. How can it make her radiant? Because she lets it. Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not. How do I know this is true? I look inside myself and see.

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I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.

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Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?

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He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince.

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Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

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These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.

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Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

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The net of heaven is very wide in its meshes, and yet it misses nothing.

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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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If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

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As for the "proper way:" it is the beginning of disorder.

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Battles are followed by years of famine.

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Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

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Is not the space between Heaven and Earth like a bellows? It is empty, but lacks nothing. The more it moves, the more comes out of it.

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Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

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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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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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In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.

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Be who you are, and go the whole way.

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