To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
What is strong and rigid is snapped and laid low. What is flexible and soft will always prevail.
You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.
The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.
Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little.
There is one appointed supreme executioner. Truly, trying to take the place of the supreme executioner is like trying to carve wood like a master carpenter. Of those who try to carve wood like a master carpenter, there are few who do not injure their hands.