Lao Tzu Quotes
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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Silence is a source of great strength.
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To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.
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One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.
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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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To lead people walk behind them.
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Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.
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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.