Being a model to the world, eternal virtue will never falter in you, and you return to the boundless.

Allow your softer, more intuitive, and less dominating feminine qualities to rise to the fore, so that you're surrendering rather than dominating, receiving rather than broadcasting, loving rather than fighting.

Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.

The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day.

When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.

Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.

Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.