He who regards many things easy will find many difficulties. Therefore the sage regards things difficult, and consequently never has difficulties.
The sage's Way is to act and not to contend.
That which shrinks must first expand.
The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things.
. . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.