It is wealth to be content.

When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.

The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.

No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.

The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house is crowded; It contrives not, but the design is perfect.

The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.