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• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

• He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

• He who knows others is wise; he who know himself is enlightened.

• He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

• Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

• The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

• The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

• The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

• To have little is to possess. To have plenty is to be perplexed.

• To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

• When armies are mobilized and issues are joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will win.

Laozi: Quotations in German

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