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- The Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it eternal? It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite? It has no…
- Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling,…
- In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.
- . . . the integral being is attached to nothing and can relate to everyone with an unstructured attitude. Because of this, her very existence…
- There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.
- The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is…
- Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing.…
- From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.
- Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan for difficulty when…
- He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.
- He who regards many things easy will find many difficulties. Therefore the sage regards things difficult, and consequently never has difficulties.
- All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do…
- Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.
- The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.
- Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.
- He who is attached to things will suffer much.
- I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
- All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
- To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- 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…
- Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward…
- If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there…
- Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return to life is…
- Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
- The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle