truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 19 January 2007 8:49 am

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Lao Tzu

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 19 January 2007 8:50 am

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.
Lao Tzu

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 19 January 2007 8:51 am

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 19 January 2007 8:51 am

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 19 January 2007 8:53 am

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 19 January 2007 8:54 am

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Lao Tzu

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 19 January 2007 8:55 am

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
Lao Tzu