The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is akin to Tao. . . . In all the earth nothing weaker than water, Yet in attacking the hard, nothing superior, Nothing so certain in wearing down strength: There is no way to resist it. Note then: The weak conquer the strong, The yielding outlast the aggressors.

Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight

The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge.

Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.

Pursue without interfering.