“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
Love“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
Patience“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
Love“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
Life“Silence is a source of great strength.”
Great“How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?”
Men“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
Best“To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.”
Best“The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.”
Power“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”
Death“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.”
Great“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
Love“Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.”
Knowledge“The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'”
Good“If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.”
Great“Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.”
Good“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
Patience“I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.”
Good“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
Nature“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”
Great“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
Great“Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.”
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