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

The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.

When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.

Nothing and no one in the world is valuable or worthless.

I observe myself and I come to know others.

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.