To rule by knowledge ravages the country.
To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
Requite injury with kindness.
Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find, And those who reform will be forgiven; Why the good will be rewarded, And the thief who is cunning will escape.
We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from birth to death are also three out of ten. Why is that so? Because they want to make too much of life.