If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

A good counter needs no calculator.

If I have just an ounce of sense, I follow the great Way, and fear only to stray from it.

He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good.

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day.

The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.