See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

The most able seems clumsy.

To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.