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

The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.

The highest benevolence acts without purpose.

The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

It is the child that sees the primordial secret in Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. The child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.

The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious.