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Few Quotes by Laozi
- One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
- Make the small big and the few many.
- That so few understand me is why I am treasured.
- The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.
- Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.
- To be of few words is natural.
- 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…
- Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes…
- Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying…
- Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.
- Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it is still easy;…
- Treat the large as the small and the few as the many.
- Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
- Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about…
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