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Archivist Inspirational Quotes (886)

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The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things.
Laozi
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Without going outside, you may know the whole world!
Laozi
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The master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao.
Laozi
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Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.
Laozi
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When the hares have all been caught, the hunting dogs are cooked.
Laozi
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Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.
Laozi
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Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world.
Laozi
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Cautious, like crossing a river in the winter.
Laozi
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Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.
Henry Spencer
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Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.
Jules Michelet
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I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Laozi
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Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.
Laozi
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
Gottfried Leibniz
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Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.
Laozi
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The sage's Way is to act and not to contend.
Laozi
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The world may be known Without leaving the house.
Laozi
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Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
Laozi
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Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
Laozi
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.
Laozi
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The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.
Laozi
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Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.
Laozi
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A good runner leaves no footprints.
Laozi
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Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
Laozi
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Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.
Laozi
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