Laozi
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Chinese thinker traditionally named as the author of the Daodejing, also called the Laozi; said in Chinese sources to have flourished in the sixth century…
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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12 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The Tao that can be walked is not the enduring, unchanging Tao, and the name that can be named is not the enduring name (opens korrents.com)
“The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.”
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The highest excellence is like water, which benefits all things and takes the low place without striving (opens korrents.com)
“The highest excellence is like (that of) water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving (to the contrary), the low place which all men dislike.”
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Knowing others is discernment and knowing oneself is intelligence; overcoming oneself is mightier than overcoming others (opens korrents.com)
“He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent. He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty.”
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The Tao that can be walked is not the enduring, unchanging Tao, and the name that can be named is not the enduring name (opens korrents.com)