The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.
Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.
A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone.
When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.