Lao Tzu Quotes

• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

  Lao Tzu

• Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

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• Silence is a source of great strength.

  Lao Tzu

• Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intelligently

• People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

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• One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

  Lao Tzu

• One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

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• Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

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• Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

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• Nature is not human hearted.

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• Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

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• Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

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  Topics in Power

  Tags in Mastering

• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

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• Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

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• Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

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• Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

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  Topics in Life

• Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

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• Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

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  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Knowing, Enlightenment

• It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

  Lao Tzu

• In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

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Lao Tzu (131)

Birth:	400 BC
Death:	531 BC
Nationality:	Chinese
Profession:	Author, Philosopher

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