Lao Tzu Quotes
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The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
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When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.
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Stay at the center and let all things take their course.
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The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.
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If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
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The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.
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How do I know about the world? By what is within me.
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There is no illusion great than fear.
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Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.
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Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.
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A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone.
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My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.
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All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin. . . . This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom.
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He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.
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Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.
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Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
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A violent wind does not last for a whole morning.
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When taxes are too high, people go hungry.
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What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.
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To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
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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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Although there are weapons for tens and hundreds of soldiers, they will not be used.
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A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.