It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.

Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel.

Nature does not have to insist.

Conduct your triumph as a funeral.

What is strong and rigid is snapped and laid low. What is flexible and soft will always prevail.

Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People's Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive.

Treat the large as the small and the few as the many.