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Lower Quotes by Laozi
- Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like…
- All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people,…
- A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.
- Excellent leaders of people lower themselves.
- There are three layers to the universe. In the lower, Tai Ching, and the middle, Shan Ching, the hindrance of a physical bodily existence is…
- If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and…
- All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.
More Lower Quotes
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my… — Lauren Bacall
- Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life. — Irving Berlin
- That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no… — Annie Besant
- No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for… — Aneurin Bevan
- Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. — Josh Billings
- China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer… — Michael Bloomberg