The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.
Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
The highest virtue seems as low as a valley.
How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.
The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.
Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.