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Beginning Quotes by Laozi
- Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
- When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow…
- Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and…
- The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.
- The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the…
- Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.
- The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.
- The biggest in the world is small in its beginning.
- Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.
- Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
- Take care with the end as you do with the beginning
- As for the "proper way:" it is the beginning of disorder.
- 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…
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