Give up learning, and put an end to your troubles.

Nature doesn't make long speeches.

The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!

A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.