The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.

Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?

To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.

It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

He who holds balance...has attained the highest post in the world.

Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.