The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.
The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.
Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.
Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.
By not claiming to be first in the world one can rule.
The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.