My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.

Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.

To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

A violent wind does not last for a whole morning.

Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.