Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.

Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.

Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.

Trustable words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not trustable.

Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.

Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.

Those who of old were good practicers of Tao did not use it to make people bright, but rather used it to make them simple.