The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.

There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.

Although there are weapons for tens and hundreds of soldiers, they will not be used.

In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle - this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.

...The sage, traveling all day, Does not lose sight of his baggage. Though there are beautiful things to be seen, He remains unattached and calm.

He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.

Between yea and nay, how much difference is there?