Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.

Seal the openings, shut the doors, and until your last day you will not be exhausted. Widen the openings, interfere, and until your last day you will not be safe.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!

The purest white seems stained.

The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao.

Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.