Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.

Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.

He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

Hold on to the great image, and the whole world follows, follows unharmed, content and completely at peace.

When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.