If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

He does not seek power - yet people follow him.

Truly, only acting without thought of one's life is superior to valuing one's life.

Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him.

Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.

For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.