Lao Tzu Quotes
But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility, and aim only at being first. Therefore they shall surely perish.
Lao Tzu
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Viggo Mortensen
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Mac DeMarco
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Kaskade
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We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.
Nelson Goodman
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J. R. R. Tolkien
One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.
C.P. Cavafy
This group had a kind of dark glamour within the castle. They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty.
Joanne Rowling
What we have called the "law" of creation, therefore, is
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Albert M. Wolters
But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility, and aim only at being first. Therefore they shall surely perish.
Lao Tzu
