Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

As for the "proper way:" it is the beginning of disorder.

The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.