Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.
He who treasures his body as much as the world can care for the world.
The greatest virtue is to follow the Way utterly.
If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.
That which is achieved the most, still has the whole of its future yet to be achieved.
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.