To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

Be in harmony, yet be different.

To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

Man shoot at nothing, sure to hit it.