Showing posts with label Lao-tzu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lao-tzu. Show all posts

Money, Lao-tzu (老子)


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

- Laozi (老子, 604 BC-? )

Endurance, Lao-tzu (老子)


There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

- Laozi (老子, 604 BC-? )

Knowledge, Lao-tzu (老子)


People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

- Laozi (老子, 604 BC-? )

Politics, Lao-tzu


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

- Laozi (老子, 604 BC-? )

Happiness, Lao-tzu


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

- Laozi (老子, 604 BC-? )