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Noble Quotes by Laozi
- Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.
- Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
- The noble must make humility his root.
- To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we…
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- Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds. — James M. Barrie
- Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. — Charles Baudelaire
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