Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.

The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.

The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day.

I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.

Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do not say this. They say, "We have done it all ourselves."

The rigid and big belong below. The soft and weak belong above.