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Archivist Inspirational Quotes (886)

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Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.
Laozi
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Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it the next best is felt yet loved then comes that which is known and feared the worst government is hated.
Laozi
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If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.
Laozi
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What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.
Laozi
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Going on means going far, going far means returning.
Laozi
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The separate parts make no carriage.
Laozi
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If you really want everything, then give up everything.
Laozi
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I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy the second is economy. The third is daring not to be ahead of others. From mercy comes courage from economy comes generosity From humility comes leadership.
Laozi
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Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.
Laozi
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( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.
Epifanio de los Santos
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The Tao which you know is not the eternal Tao
Laozi
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What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?
Jules Michelet
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Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.
Laozi
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He who knows others is clever He who knows himself has discernment.
Laozi
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Love is the greatest link that we have with those who have temporarily left us.
Laozi
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Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.
Laozi
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Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax, starve also
Laozi
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And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
Gottfried Leibniz
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Those who of old were good practicers of Tao did not use it to make people bright, but rather used it to make them simple.
Laozi
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Health is the greatest possession.
Laozi
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Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.
Laozi
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To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something
Laozi
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A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).
Laozi
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Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.
Laozi
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