Can you care for the people and rule the country and not be cunning?
The sage's Way is to act and not to contend.
The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.
We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.
By compassion one can be brave.
These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.