With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.

Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

Watch your thoughts, they become words.

He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

Praise and disgrace cause fear.

Whoever is capable of knowing when they have had enough will always be satisfied.