"Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost." — Laozi
"Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost."
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1,065 Quotes by Laozi
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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they…
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Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
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He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall…
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Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he…
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He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the…
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He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes…
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Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have…
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What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams…
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Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And…
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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know…
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Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be…
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The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he…
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More Assembled Quotes
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose…
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There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts…
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The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to…
— Robert M. Price
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At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which…
— Unknown Author
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has…
— Gail Sheehy
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But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it…
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In an age when schools are facing significant budgetary restraints, there is a greater need than ever to make chess…
— Garry Kasparov
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When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there…
— Plato
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I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The crucified but risen Jesus appears in the believing, assembled community of the church. That this sense of the risen,…
— Edward Schillebeeckx
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