Be who you are, and go the whole way.

A whale out of water is over-run by ants.

Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax, starve also

Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.

Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.

He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.