Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place.

Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.

Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.

Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.