A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is akin to Tao. . . . In all the earth nothing weaker than water, Yet in attacking the hard, nothing superior, Nothing so certain in wearing down strength: There is no way to resist it. Note then: The weak conquer the strong, The yielding outlast the aggressors.

There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.

Justice has long arm.

Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.