If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.

Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.

Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.

Everything will settle in its own place automatically.