For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.

Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.

If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.

He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince.

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.

Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?