It is fitting for a great nation to yield.

Returning is the movement of the Way.

The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.

If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?

The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself.

Can you comprehend everything in the four directions and still do nothing?

What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.