Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!

How can a man's life keep it's course If he will not let it flow, Those who flow as life flows know They need no other force: They feel no wear, they feel no tear, They need no mending, no repair.

The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.

The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.

Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

He who is able to conquer others is powerful; he who is able to conquer himself is more powerful.