If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.
He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
He who controls the past controls the future.
We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.
The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.