"When the Way is lost there is virtue.……" — Laozi
"When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals."
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1,065 Quotes by Laozi
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Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
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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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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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More Benevolence Quotes
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
— Aristotle
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
— Hans Bender
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
— Mortimer Adler
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I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
— Richard Branson
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar…
— John Jay Chapman
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
— C.S. Lewis
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
— Samuel Johnson
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They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.
— Sun Tzu
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When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in…
— Sun Tzu
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Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be…
— Joseph Hall
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Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
— Karl Pearson
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Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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