Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
When the hares have all been caught, the hunting dogs are cooked.
Build up virtue, and you master all.
Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.