The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.

Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.

Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.

Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.