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Why Quotes by Laozi
- The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them.…
- Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion,…
- Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them... If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with…
- The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This…
- The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.
- That so few understand me is why I am treasured.
- People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.
- Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
- What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.
- 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?
- If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?
- People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern.
- 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…
- People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.
- Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao. It springs into existence, unconscious, perfect, free, takes on a physical body, lets circumstances…
- When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being…
- The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.
- 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…
- Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find, And those…
- Heaven and Earth last for ever. Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever? They are unborn, so ever living. The sage stays behind, thus…
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- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
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