Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.

The biggest in the world is small in its beginning.

What should be shrunken must first be stretched.

The wise person dines on something more subtle: He eats the understanding that the named was born from the unnamed, that all being flows from non-being, that the describable world emanates from an indescribable source.

Who can rest until the moment of action?

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.