...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.
The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.
A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
The highest tone is hard to hear.