Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.

The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself.

Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.