My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.
Yielding, like ice about to melt.
To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.
There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.