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

Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.

Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.

The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

If you never assume importance, you never lose it.