If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.
Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.
Its name-what passes not away.
The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.