Taoism Quotes - Page 10

• Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one's downfall.

  Laozi

  Pride, Titles, Riches

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• Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.

  Laozi

  Gold, Jade, Able

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• Not valuing wealth prevents theft.

  Laozi

  Wealth, Theft

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• When everyone sees good, then bad exists.

  Laozi

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• He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good.

  Laozi

  Sage, Virtue

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• The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge.

  Laozi

  People, Treasure, Way

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• To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.

  Laozi

  Heaven, Work Well Done, Way

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• When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.

  Laozi

  Overcoming, Virtue

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• Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.

  Laozi

  Virtue, Being True

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• The noble must make humility his root.

  Laozi

  Humility, Roots, Noble

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• Dignified, like a guest.

  Laozi

  Guests

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• In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.

  Laozi

  People, Giving, Ignorant

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• Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?

  Laozi

  Way, Praise, Saved

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• The ancients said: Hulk to be whole.

  Laozi

  Said, Whole

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• Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

  Laozi

  Essence, Profound, Excellence

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• Heaven's Way gives no favors. It always remains with good people.

  Laozi

  People, Giving, Heaven

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• What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.

  Laozi

  Heaven, Sage, Difficult

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• Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

  Laozi

  People, Fine Words, Noble

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• The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

  Laozi

  People, Desire, Doe

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• Let people take death seriously, and not travel far.

  Laozi

  People

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• Do not make them (people) weary at their work. If you do not make them weary, they will not be weary of you.

  Laozi

  People, Weary, Ifs

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• People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern.

  Laozi

  People, Too Much, Rulers

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• Those who die without being forgotten get longevity.

  Laozi

  Forgotten, Longevity, Dies

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• Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.

  Laozi

  Filling, Ominous

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• There is one appointed supreme executioner. Truly, trying to take the place of the supreme executioner is like trying to carve wood like a master carpenter. Of those who try to carve wood like a master carpenter, there are few who do not injure their hands.

  Laozi

  Hands, Trying, Woods

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