The best way to carve is not to split.

If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.

Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People's Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive.

The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.