To lead people, walk behind them.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.

It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.

heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled.

All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.