Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.

What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.

What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?

Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the people, he must put himself behind them. In this way, though he has his place above them, the people do not feel his weight; though he has his place before them, they do not feel it as an injury. Therefore all mankind delight to exalt him, and weary of him not.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still.