Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

No disaster is worse than being discontented.

Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.

A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.