Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.

In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.

With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.

Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding.

He who holds balance...has attained the highest post in the world.