The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.
In work, do what you enjoy.
Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.
A whale out of water is over-run by ants.
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.