If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.

Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.

The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.

The rigid tree will be felled.

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.

He who controls the past controls the future.