No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.

Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely meshed, yet nothing slips through.

Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.