The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.

Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.

Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.

Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

Who can rest until the moment of action?

To be worn out is to be renewed.

Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.