565 Quotes by Laozi

Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.

When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.

Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.

He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.

The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it’s own accord.