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There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is not greater disaster than greed.
- Lao Tzu


The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
- Lao Tzu


He who knows others is wise;He who know himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu


When armies are mobilized and issues are joined,The man who is sorry over the fact will win.
- Lao Tzu


To know that you do not know is the best.To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
- Lao Tzu


The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
- Lao Tzu


He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.
- Lao Tzu


People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
- Lao Tzu


The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.
- Lao Tzu


He who knows does not speak.He who speaks does not know.
- Lao Tzu


When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
- Lao Tzu


To have little is to possess.To have plenty is to be perplexed.
- Lao Tzu


When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be
- Lao Tzu


Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
- Lao Tzu


Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses
- Lao Tzu


The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu


When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu


Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu


Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
- Lao Tzu


To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu


From wonder into wonder existence opens.
- Lao Tzu


Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
- Lao Tzu


Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu


To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu


To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu


An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
- Lao Tzu


If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu


He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
- Lao Tzu


Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
- Lao Tzu


To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu


Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
- Lao Tzu


When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,here arises the recognition of ugliness.When they all know the good as good,There arises the recognition of evil.
- Lao Tzu


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