People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.
Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.
A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet.
To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.
Conclusions are ignorance arrested on the path to less ignorance.
The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.