Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.
Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.
If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man?
Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely meshed, yet nothing slips through.
Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious.