Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

When taxes are too high, people go hungry. When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit. Act for the people's benefit. Trust them; leave them alone.

I observe myself and I come to know others.

To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.

Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.

The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself.

The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.