The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.
The highest truth cannot be put into words.
There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.
...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
The sage has no concern for himself, but makes the concerns of others his own.