Famous quote by Lao Tzu

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"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still"

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This quote is written / told by Lao Tzu between 571 BC and 471 BC. He was a famous Author from China. The author also have 74 other quotes.

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"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas"

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time"

"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love"

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter"

"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius"

"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young"

"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets"

"The more you are talked about the less powerful you are"

"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us"

Sophocles, Author

"I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty"