The wise man knows he doesn't know.

When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.

Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

Great, it passes on (in constant flow).

The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them.

He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.