Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.
If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.
To rule by knowledge ravages the country.
Excellent warriors are not violent.
The small is easy to scatter.