The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.
The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.
When you are sick of your sickness you will cease to be sick.
Nurture the spontaneous peaceful life.
What is well planted will not be uprooted.
Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.