The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.

He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.

Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do.

If I have just an ounce of sense, I follow the great Way, and fear only to stray from it.

Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.