The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Quote by Lao Tzu

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the...

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the...

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right...

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right...

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Silence is a source of great strength.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise...

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise...

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.

Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage

He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.

He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.

Such is the essential mystery.

Such is the essential mystery.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do...

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do...

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to...

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to...

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them NAME?forward in whatever...

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them NAME?forward in whatever...

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit...

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit...

Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished

Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished

The melancholy truth was that his glorious golden head had nothing in it

The melancholy truth was that his glorious golden head had nothing in it