Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone.

All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.

He who treasures his body as much as the world can care for the world.

The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

The truest sayings are paradoxical.