Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself.
Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.
If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace.
Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.
People are born soft and weak. They die hard and stiff.
In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally the age When rulers are hated.