Lao Tzu Quotes
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To rule by knowledge ravages the country.
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Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
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Nothing and no one in the world is valuable or worthless.
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Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.
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Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!
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A winner listens, a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk.
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Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.
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Without stepping out the door, you can know the world.
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The more you know the less you understand.
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The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.
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When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.
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As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.
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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
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Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those who increase their service along with their understanding can be called men and women of Tao.
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Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.
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...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
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If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
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So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.
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Those who boast are not respected.
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Yielding is the manner of the Way.