Nature
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"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom."
Lao Tzu
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
Lao Tzu
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
Lao Tzu
"Do you have the patience to wait till the mud settles and the water is clear?"
Lao Tzu
"In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped."
Lao Tzu
"The highest good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying."
Lao Tzu
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
Lao Tzu
"If you realize that all things are of one body, you may begin to love them."
Lao Tzu
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."
Lao Tzu
"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao."
Lao Tzu
"Covenants, without the sword, are but words."
Thomas Hobbes
"Knowledge is power."
Thomas Hobbes
Attributed
"The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
Thomas Hobbes
"Good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions."
Thomas Hobbes
"Man is distinguished, not only by his reason."
Thomas Hobbes
"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them."
Thomas Hobbes
"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."
Thomas Hobbes
Attributed
"In the state of nature there is no injustice."
Thomas Hobbes
"Fear of things invisible is the natural seed."
Thomas Hobbes
"Science is the knowledge of consequences."
Thomas Hobbes