Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.
All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.
My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.
Conclusions are ignorance arrested on the path to less ignorance.
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
Warriors say: I dare not be like the host, but would rather be like the guest. I dare not advance an inch, but would rather retreat a foot.