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Lao-Tze
Ancient China
-570 // -490
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On Government:
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it
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On Teaching:
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
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On Existence:
From wonder into wonder existence opens
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On Comprehension:
Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding
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On Do:
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning
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On Birth:
Born to be wild - live to outgrow it
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On Love:
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage
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On Courage:
Because of a great love, one is courageous
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On Chief:
Be the chief but never the lord
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On Action:
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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