Quotes Laozi - page 12
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He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
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.
The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.
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Build up virtue, and you master all.
The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.
A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong.
The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.
The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone.
Who can rest until the moment of action?
The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and her has nothing left to hold on to: no illusions in his mind, no resistances in his body. He doesn't think about his actions; they flow from the core of his being. He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for sleep after a good day's work.
Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.
Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.
Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?
Heaven and Earth last for ever. Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever? They are unborn, so ever living. The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead. He is detached, thus at one with all. Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment.
Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions.
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A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
