What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are what they value. They do not glory in victory.

The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

Those who die without being forgotten get longevity.

Being a model to the world, eternal virtue will never falter in you, and you return to the boundless.