The more you know the less you understand.

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.

What is and what is not create each other.

Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.

Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.