Governing a great state is like frying a small fish.
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The 7 quotations by Laozi, each linked to the position it expresses.
Governing a great state is like frying a small fish.
Nothing in the world is softer and weaker than water; yet for attacking what is hard and strong nothing surpasses it.
The Dao does nothing, and yet nothing is left undone.
The Dao that can be named is not the constant Dao.
The human models himself on the earth, the earth on heaven, heaven on the Dao, and the Dao on itself.
The more clever tools there are, the more the state sinks into disorder.
The more laws and edicts there are, the more thieves and robbers multiply.