The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.
Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong.
Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.
Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.
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.
The wise person dines on something more subtle: He eats the understanding that the named was born from the unnamed, that all being flows from non-being, that the describable world emanates from an indescribable source.