A whale out of water is over-run by ants.

Those who show off do not shine.

In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it.

Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.