It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

He does not seek glory - yet people respect him.

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance.

Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever.

Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.