"The grandest virtue seems deficient." — Laozi
"The grandest virtue seems deficient."
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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 Deficient Quotes
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Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it…
— Sun Tzu
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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in…
— Aristotle
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I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the…
— Wayne Dyer
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There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals…
— George Wald
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Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.
— John Mott
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You can't be protein deficient without being calorie deficient because even if you take the foods that have the least…
— T. Colin Campbell
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Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as…
— James Hutton
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Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be…
— Samuel Warren Carey
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It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.
— Steven Morrissey
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In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the…
— Michael Parenti
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In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly…
— Socrates
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The male chromosome is an incomplete female chromosome. In other words the male is a walking abortion; aborted at the…
— Valerie Solanas
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