When taxes are too high, people go hungry.
He (the Sage) does not show off, therefore he shines.
The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.
The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge.
In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.
A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.