The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.
Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step and if that step is the right step, it becomes the last step.