The wise man knows without traveling.

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status.

Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.

Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.