Monday, May 4, 2026

Lao Tzu

 

Lao Tzu (6th-5th century BCE)

“To be overbearing when one has wealth and position
Is to bring calamity upon oneself.”

  • From Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching (Book One, IX), translated by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics, 1963).

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