If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?

The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.

When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.

Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.

When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

He who controls the past controls the future.