The Way that can be walked is not the eternal Way.

People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die.

The whole world says that my Way is great like nothing else. It is great because it is like nothing else. If it were like everything else, it would long ago have become insignificant.

A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.

Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.

Empty your mind of all thoughts.