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

Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!

Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious.

The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.

A violent wind does not last for a whole morning.