The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.

The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate.

Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present moment.

When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.

Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.

heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled.