Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.
We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
The sage acts by doing nothing.
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.