Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.
Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.
...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.
The separate parts make no carriage.
Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.