"The great Way is very straight, but..." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?”

“People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die.”

“The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.”

“When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.”

“Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.”

“Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.”

“For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.”

“Philosophers are only men in armor after all.”

“The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.”