Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.

It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?

Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great,And thereby the great is achieved.

The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

A whale out of water is over-run by ants.