Take care with the end as you do with the beginning
The leader's main job is to make themselves obsolete.
The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.
The unyielding army will not win.
Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.
A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).