WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:02:31 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg criminalize – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Lao-tzu -- Tao-te Ching, ch. 57 [tr. Wing-Tsit Chan] https://wist.info/lao-tzu/36742/ https://wist.info/lao-tzu/36742/#comments Wed, 12 Apr 2017 13:55:53 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=36742 The more laws and orders are made prominent,
The more thieves and bandits there will be.


Lao-tzu (604?-531? BC) Chinese philosopher, poet [also Lao-tse, Laozi]
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) French emperor, military leader
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