To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.
Be content with an ordinary life.
Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.
Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.
Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely meshed, yet nothing slips through.
By not claiming to be first in the world one can rule.