Quote by Lao Tzu
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much h

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it. – Lao Tzu

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I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any. – Lao Tzu

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good
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu

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Love
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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great

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator. – Barack Obama

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great

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. – Moliere

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Life is either a great adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

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One succeeds in all Yogas through energetic practice—even if one is young, old, very old, sick, or weak. – Svatmarama, The Hatha Yoga Pradipika, translated from Sanskrit by Brian Dana Ake

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I am convinced that a light supper, a good nights sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward. – Lord Chesterfield

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Heroes/Heroism

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. – Lewis H. Lapham