Prepare while it's easy.
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.
In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.
The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.
How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.