Going on means going far, going far means returning.
Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.
Meet the difficult while it is easy.
In the world there are four greats, and the king is one of them.
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
Being is born of not being.