Nothing and no one in the world is valuable or worthless.
Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.
Nature doesn't make long speeches.
The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.
Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising by returning to itself, winning victories by remaining gentle and yielding, it is softer than anything, and therefore overcomes everything hard.
Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely meshed, yet nothing slips through.