Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

If you would take, you must first give.

Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

If people do not revere the Law of Nature It will adversely affect them. If they accept It with knowledge and reverence, It will accommodate them with balance and harmony.

When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.