Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.
He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.
Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.
Can you care for the people and rule the country and not be cunning?
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
The real is empty and the empty real