The truest sayings are paradoxical.
Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.
The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.
The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.
If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.