"The sage is not ill, because he sees…" — Laozi
"The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness."
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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 Ill Quotes
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
— Jane Austen
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
— Francis Bacon
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.
— Alec Baldwin
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how…
— Albert Bandura
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I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.
— Roseanne Barr
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that…
— James Truslow Adams
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
— Joe Barton
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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