Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.
All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.
Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.
Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.