The good leader carries water for his people.

Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.

In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.

When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

Going forward seems like retreat.

The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it.