You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself.

Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.

I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.

When taxes are too high, people go hungry. When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit. Act for the people's benefit. Trust them; leave them alone.

Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.

Those who of old were good practicers of Tao did not use it to make people bright, but rather used it to make them simple.