Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife

Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk

When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, "he loves learning."

He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.

The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.

The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.