When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.

Strong winds do not last all morning, hard rains do not last all day.

To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.