Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?
Nature is not anthropomorphic.
People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern.
By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal.
Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?