But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?

When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.

Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.

All men are born good.

If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.