"The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.…" — Laozi
"The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance."
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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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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids…
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined…
— Sun Tzu
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Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands,…
— Sun Tzu
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The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the…
— H. L. Mencken
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
— Albert Einstein
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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
— Theodore Parker
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Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality…
— Arthur Cayley
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For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
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