He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.

If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.

Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

Without looking through the window, you can see Heaven's Way.

To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.

The rigid and big belong below. The soft and weak belong above.