Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.
A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.
Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.