If you never assume importance, you never lose it.

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know. Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.

Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.

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

The Way is eternal. Until your last day, you are free from peril.

The net of heaven is very wide in its meshes, and yet it misses nothing.