Excellent conquerors do not engage.

He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.

A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.

All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.