If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave.
Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.
Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.
The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.
Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.
Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.