Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
Observe how endings become beginnings.
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.