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- They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another.
- If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them…
- The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.
- 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?
- To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.
- We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from birth to death…
- 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…
- Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work profane? Then your…
- The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not…
- Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.
- The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each…
- What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.
- Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand…
- 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…
- The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like…
- Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your…
- A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth;…
- All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
- Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have…
- A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
- We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We…
- When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It…
- Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?
- The great Tao flows everywhere. All things are born from it, yet it doesn't create them. It pours itself into its work, yet it makes…
- Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. Each separate being in…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle