Laozi Quotes - Page 38

• When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

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  People, Liberty, Libertarian

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• Dualistic thinking is a sickness.

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  Thinking, Sickness

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

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  Honesty, Taoism, Enlightening

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• If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.

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  Country, Yield, Taoism

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• Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?

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  Expectations, Taoism, Kind

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• When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

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  Giving, Phrases, Want

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• What's the difference between yes and no?

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  Differences, Taoism, Yes And No

  Laozi, Bi Wang, Paul J. Lin (1977). “A translation of Lao Tzu's Tao te ching and Wang Pi's commentary”, Univ of Michigan Center for chinese

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• He (the Sage) does not show off, therefore he shines.

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  Shining, Taoism, Doe

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• Human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless.

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  Perfect, Essentials, Humans

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• Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

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  Ties, People, Taoism

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• The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.

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  Clever, Powerful, War

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• The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.

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  Two, Numbers, Three

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.63, Chinese University Press

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• The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.

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  Taoism, Virtue, Claims

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• We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

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  Moving, Space, House

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• Justice has long arm.

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  Long, Justice, Arms

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• In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

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  Water, Return, Clarity

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• Between yea and nay, how much difference is there?

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  Differences

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.29, Chinese University Press

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• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.

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  Simple, Thinking, Dwelling

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• heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled.

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  Wise, Heaven, Earth

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• When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

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  Government, People, Taoism

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• The Way is hidden and nameless. Still only the Way nourishes and completes.

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  Taoism, Way, Nameless

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• Without stepping out the door, you can know the world.

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  Doors, Taoism, World

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• When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'.

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  Names, Taoism, Doe

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• To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.

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  Mean, Heaven, Vision

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• Yielding is the manner of the Way.

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  Taoism, Way

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