Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.
The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done.
Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.
When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.
Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature.
Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.