Laozi Quotes

Nature does not have to insist.

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Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

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If you really want everything, then give up everything.

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Pursue without interfering.

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What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.

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Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work profane? Then your mind is separated: from itself, from oneness, from the Tao.

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He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.

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To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.

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Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

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If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.

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When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it would be unworthy of being the Way.

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The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things. All things have their backs to the female and stand facing the male. When male and female combine, all things achieve harmony. Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

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Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.

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The wise man knows without traveling.

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Words have divided man from woman, one from another, this from that, until only sages know how to put things together. Without words, without even understanding, lovers find each other. The moment of finding is always a surprise, like meeting an old friend never before known.

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Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.

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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

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ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

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The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.

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