My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice them, you'll fail. My teachings are older than the world. How can you grasp their meaning? If you want to know me, look inside your heart.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.
You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.
The highest benevolence acts without purpose.
It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.