Lao Tzu

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

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.

Nature is not human hearted.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

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.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.