"Thus it is that "Some things are increased……" — Laozi
"Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily, I will make it the root of my teaching."
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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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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 Diminished Quotes
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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
— Charles Baudelaire
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When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened,…
— Maya Angelou
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Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand…
— Carl Sagan
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Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be…
— Judith Viorst
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The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you…
— Alan Cohen
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The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing…
— Robert Aris Willmott
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One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the…
— Bertrand Russell
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Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that…
— Isaac Newton
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It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which…
— James Madison
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The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it…
— Pico Iyer
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