We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from birth to death are also three out of ten. Why is that so? Because they want to make too much of life.

The most straight seems curved.

Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.

When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner.

Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.

In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.