Laozi Quotations

Laozi Quotations:

1. The world knows that beauty is beautiful, and it is evil. Everyone knows that good is good, and good is not good. [Source] "The second chapter of the Tao Te Ching" [translation] Everyone in the world knows that the beauty is the standard of beauty, so there is a ugly opposition to it; everyone knows the reason why good is the standard of good, so there is a negative Not good.

2. There is no relationship, it is difficult to form a good, long and short compared, high and low, the sound is harmonious, and the front and back follow. [Source] "The second chapter of the Tao Te Ching" [translation] There is no mutual biochemistry, difficult and easy to promote each other, long and short compared with each other, high and low mutual tendency, sound and sound should be harmonious, before and after each other .

3. The sage is doing nothing, and does not teach. [Source] "The Book of Morals, Chapter 2" [translation] The saints always do things that conform to the laws of nature and objective laws, and use actions to educate when doing things, instead of using language to educate.

4. There is no life, no deafness, and success. Fu Weifu is living, can't go. [The body of the source I is prolonged and there is nothing, its role is endless.

8. If you are good at water, you will be good at everything, and you will not be contending for it. [Source] "The Eighth Chapter of the Tao Te Ching" [translation] The supreme good deeds are like water. Water, good at all things and not with all things, is in the low places that everyone hates, so the water's temper is very close to the Tao.

9. Jin Yu Man Tang, Mo Zhi can keep. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 9" [translation] There are many gold and silver treasures, no one can hold it.

10. Going back, the way of heaven. [Source] "The Book of Morals · Chapter 9" [translation] After the success, the rapids retreat, in line with the truth of the day.

11. It is thought to be profitable and useless. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 11" [translation] "Yes" can give people a small interest, "No" can have a real "big use."

12. The five colors are dazzling. The five notes are deafening and the five flavors are refreshing. Galloping and hunting. It is maddening. A rare item is a good thing. [Source] "Third Chapter of Morality" [translation] Colourful and dazzling, noisy sound makes people's hearing failure, thick taste makes people feel bad, riding hunting makes people mindful and mad, valuable items make Human behavior is not good.

13. The laity is astounding, I am alone, the vulgar is inspecting, I am alone. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Twenty Chapter" [translation] Everyone is very intelligent and wise, but I am confused. Everyone is very smart, but I look very stupid.

14. The content of Conde, but the word is from. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 21" [translation] A person who truly has moral cultivation, his connotation, only one word: "Tao."

15. The song is full, the 枉 is straight, the 洼 is 盈, the 敝 is new, the less is, the more confusing. [Source] "Toxic Classics Chapter 22" [translation] 委 圆 圆 可以 可以 可以 可以 可以 可以 可以 可以 可以 可以 可以 可以 可以 可以 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正 矫正Instead, it became doubtful.

16. The husband does not argue, so the world can not compete with it. [Source] "Toxic Classics Chapter 22" [translation] Because no one is fighting, so no one in the world can fight with him.

17. Those who engage in the Tao are the same as the Tao, the Germans are the same as the Germans, and the losers are the same. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Twenty-third Chapter" [translation] The people who engage in the Tao agree that the person with virtue recognizes virtue, and the person who loses morality agrees with morality.

18. Self-seekers are unknown, and they are not. [Source] "Twenty-fourth chapter of the Tao Te Ching" [translation] People who are obsessed with their own opinions cannot discern things, and people who are self-righteous cannot distinguish between right and wrong.

19. The self-destroyer is not good, and the self-deprecating is not long. [Source] The Tao Te Ching Chapter 24 [translation] The self-proclaimed person cannot establish merit, and the self-important person cannot progress.

20. There is something mixed, born innately. [Source] "Twenty-fifth chapter of the Tao Te Ching" [translation] There is a thing that is completely integrated, existed before the birth of heaven and earth.

21. Human law, earth law, heaven and earth, and law is natural. [Source] "Twenty-fifth chapter of the Tao Te Ching" [translation] people follow the law, the effect of the law, the law of heaven, the law of nature.

22. There are no traces of good deeds, good words, and no good advice. [Source] "Twenty-seventh chapter of the Tao Te Ching" [translation] is good at walking without leaving traces, good at speaking will not leave a message, people who are good at calculations are very accurate without any tools.

23. Good people, teachers who are not good people. Those who are not good, the people who are good. [Source] "Thirty-seventh chapter of the Tao Te Ching" [translation] Good man, is the teacher of the poor. A person who is not good is a mirror of good people, and can alert good people.

24. Knowing the wisdom of the people, knowing the truth. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 33" [translation] People who can understand others are wise people. Those who can know themselves are truly intelligent people.

25. The winner is powerful and the winner is strong. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 33" [translation] People who can overcome others are powerful people. Those who can overcome themselves are the real powerhouses.

26. The contented person is rich. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 33" [translation] Talented people are truly wealthy people.

27. Death and death. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 33" [translation] The person whose body is dead but whose spirit is not forgotten is called "longevity".

28. The export of the Tao is not odorless, it is not enough to see it, it is not enough to hear it, and it is not enough. [Source] "Thirty-fifth chapter of the Tao Te Ching" [translation] Once the avenue is spoken, it will feel dull and boring, it will look inconspicuous, it will sound unspeakable, but it will benefit endlessly.

29. If you want to rest, you will be Zhang. Will be weak. It must be strong. If you want to abolish it, you will be happy. Will want to take it, it must be with it. It is called twilight. [Source] "Thirty-sixth chapter of the Tao Te Ching" [translation] If you want to converge, you must open it first. If you want to weaken, you must strengthen it first. If you want to abandon it, you must first prosper. If you want to take it, you must give it first. This is a matter of knowing the subtleties and achieving significant results.

30. Fish cannot be taken off the land, and the weapon of the country cannot be shown. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 36" [translation] fish can not leave the water, the country's sharpest weapons can not let people know.

31. The road is often inaction and nothing. [Source] "Thirty-seventh chapter of the Tao Te Ching" [translation] Tao, it seems to do nothing, but omnipotent.

32. There is no virtue in virtue of virtue. There is no virtue in virtue of virtue. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 38" [translation] The people of Shangde, did not deliberately Luo Shoude, so their own morality. The people of the Germans are afraid of losing morality, so they have no virtue.

33. After losing the word and then virtue, the loss of virtue and the benevolence, the loss of the benevolence and the righteousness, the loss of justice and then the ceremony. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 38" [translation] Lost the avenue, only emphasizes morality. Loss of morality, only emphasizes love. Losing love and emphasizing justice. Losing justice means emphasizing etiquette.

34. Everything in the world is born, and born in nothing. [Source] "Thirty Chapters of Tao Te Ching" [translation] Everything in the world is born in "Yes", while "Yes" comes from "Nothingness."

35. The generous innocence, the big device is late, the big sounds, the elephant is invisible. The road is unknown. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 41" [translation] The big area has no corners, the expensive equipment is XF at the latest, the big sound has no sound, and the big image has no form. "Tao" is hidden in the nameless.

36. Daosheng one, one life two, two three, three three things. [Source] "Taojing · Forty-second chapter" [translation] The path of nothingness is tai chi, tai chi, qi and yin and yang, two yin and yang, three talents, three talents.

37. In order to learn more, it is a day of loss. Loss and damage, so much as nothing. [Source] "Toxic Classics, Chapter 48" [translation] Pursuing learning requires that you learn every day. The pursuit of the road, just ask to minimize their desires and behaviors every day. By reducing your own desires and behaviors, you can finally reach the realm of inaction.

38. Nothing is done. [Source] "The Book of Morals, Chapter 48" [translation] In the realm of inaction, nothing can't be done.

39. The saints are often unintentional and take the hearts of the people. [Source] "The Book of Morals, Chapter 49" [translation] The saints often do not have their own selfishness, but regard the hearts of the people as their own hearts.

40. The ignorant does not speak, the speaker does not know. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 56" [translation] Words can not express the true meaning of "Tao", so wise people will not say "Tao", if someone is saying "Tao", certainly do not understand "Tao "The true meaning."

41. Take the rule of the country and use the soldiers to take advantage of the world. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 57" [translation] The ruler must follow the heavens, obey the human ethics, and govern the country with conventional principles. However, the use of soldiers must use deceit and surprise. To achieve peace in the world, you must use the "inaction" method and the way of nature.

42. The sorrow and the blessing of the blessings, the blessings of the blessings. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 58" [translation] The evil and the blessing depend on each other and can transform each other. The scourge is the premise of blessing, and the blessings contain hidden troubles.

43. Governing big countries, if you cook small fresh. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 60" [translation] The rule of the big country is to cook small fish, can not always flip, change, to maintain the stability of the policy.

44. The picture is difficult to be easy, it is greater than its fineness; it is difficult to do things in the world, it must be done in the easy world, and the great things in the world must be done in detail. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 63" [translation] To map difficult things, start with easy. If you want to be a big thing, start with a finer place. The difficult things in the world must start from the easy. The big things in the world must start from a small place.

45. The saint is not big at all, so it can be a big one. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching · Sixth + Three Chapters" [translation] The saints attach importance to subtle small things from beginning to end, do not do so-called big things, so they can accomplish great things.

46. ​​The wood of the embrace, born in the end; the platform of the nine floors, from the soil; the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 64" [translation] The big tree that is held together is grown from a small tree; the nine-story high platform is made up of a basket of soil; Traveling, you can walk step by step.

47. The work of the people is often defeated by a few. If you are careful, you will not lose. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter VI" [translation] Ordinary people do things, often fail almost when they are about to succeed. If you can be cautious and cautious, there will be no failure.

48. I have three treasures and I keep it. One is kind, two, and three are not the first in the world. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 67" [translation] I have three treasures, and I have been guarding them all the time. One is kind, one is diligent, and the third is not afraid to win.

49. I don’t know, I still know; I don’t know, I’m sick. The sage is not sick and is sick. It’s not sick if he is sick. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 71" [translation] I know but pretend not to know, this is Gao Ming. I don’t know if I pretend to know that it’s really a problem. The saint does not have this problem, because the saint is ill with this kind of "unknown to know". It is because they treat "strongly do not know what to know" as a disease, so there will be no problems.

50. If the people are not timid, then Dawei will. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 72" [translation] The people are not afraid of the rule of majesty, then the disaster will come.

51. If you dare to dare to kill, you will not dare to live. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 73" [translation] People who have the courage but act rashly are easy to be killed, and those who have the courage but do not act rashly can live.

52. Skynet is restored and not lost. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 73" [translation] Heaven is fair, evil is punishable, it seems very inconspicuous, but in the end will not let go of a bad person.

53. The people are not afraid of death, can the mouth be afraid of death? If the people are often afraid of death, and they are strange, I have to kill and kill, and dare? [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 74" If the people are not afraid of death, what is the use of death to threaten them? If the people are often afraid of death, and those very few illegal people, seize them and kill them, who else dares to violate the law?

54. The road to heaven is more than enough to make up for it. The way of the people, otherwise, the damage is not enough. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter Seventy-seventh Chapter" [translation] The way of heaven is more than enough to make up for the loss. The way of the people, on the other hand, is deductive and dedication to more than enough.

55. The world is weaker than water, and the strong and powerful can win. You are the best in the world, if you can send the world: love to be the world, if you can trust the world. [Source] "Third Chapter of the Tao Te Ching" [translation] The person who regards his own family and the world as equally important can be placed on the responsibility of the world. People who love the world like the ones who love their own family can only entrust the world.

56. To be imaginary, to be quiet. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching Chapter 16" [translation] In order to reach the realm of nothingness, we must monopolize this "quiet" word.

57. The road is abolished and there is benevolence. Wisdom comes out, there is a big fake. Six parents do not have filial piety. The country is faint and loyal. [Source] "The Tao Te Ching, Chapter 18" [translation] When the avenue is abolished, there will be benevolence. When wisdom comes up, there will be blackmail. If the six parents are not harmonious, there will be love and filial piety. There will be loyal ministers in the national unrest.

58. Heaven and earth can grow long and long, so that they can not grow up, so they can live forever. [Source] "The Book of Morals, Chapter VII" [translation] The heavens and the earth can be long-lasting because they are not born for themselves, they are born naturally, so they can last for a long time.

59. The saint is behind him and he lives outside. [Source] "The Book of Morals, Chapter VII" [translation] The saints put their own self-interest behind, and became the leader of the crowd; they put their own body outside, but better preserved their body.

60. The gentleman will drive at the right time, but he will not be able to do it when he is not. [Source] "Historical Records, Laozi Han Fei, the third biography" [translation] When the gentleman came, he drove out to show his talents. When he was born, he was as casual as a grass.

61. The arrogance and enthusiasm of the child, the temperament and the lasciviousness are all ineffective. [Source] "Historical Records, Laozi Han Fei, the third biography" [translation] Abandon your arrogance and excessive desires, as well as the temperamental look and high-minded ambitions, because these are not good for you.

62. The road is very good, the name is very famous. [Source] "The first chapter of the Tao Te Ching" [translation] We can call the Tao, not the real road; the name we can name, not the original meaning of this name.

63. Nameless, the beginning of heaven and earth; famous, the mother of all things. [Source] "The first chapter of the Tao Te Ching" [translation] No name, is the beginning of the universe of heaven; famous, is the foundation of all things to be able to give birth to metaplasia.

64. The mysterious and mysterious, the door to the wonderful. [Source] "The first chapter of the Tao Te Ching" [translation] Experience the magical use of this Tao, whether there is any difference, the wonderful is wonderful, until infinity. All the beauty is in this method.

Biography:

Laozi, surnamed Li Ming, the word 聃, a word or 曰谥伯阳. The Huaxia nationality, Qurenli, Lixiang, Ku County, Chu State, lived between 571 and 471 years ago. It was the great philosopher and thinker of ancient China, the founder of the Taoist school, and was praised by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty as the first ancestor of Li. Laozi is a world cultural celebrity and one of the world's 100 historical celebrities. He lives in the Tao Te Ching. The essence of his works is a simple dialectic, advocating inaction, and his doctrine has a profound impact on the development of Chinese philosophy. In Taoism, Laozi was honored as the ancestor of Taoism. Laozi and Zhuangzi of later generations are also called Laozhuang.