Laozi Quotes, Men Quotes, Birth Quotes

Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.

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Can you care for the people and rule the country and not be cunning?

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You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself.

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Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

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Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

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Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

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Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well. {But spiritual insight transcends death.}

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The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.

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The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land.

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

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Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.

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Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?

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Going forward seems like retreat.

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Strong winds do not last all morning, hard rains do not last all day.

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

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Who can rest until the moment of action?

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If you really want everything, then give up everything.

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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

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He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.

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