When you are sick of your sickness you will cease to be sick.
When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.
You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.
It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.