85 Lao Tzu Quotes on Life, Love and Happiness

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

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

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

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.