The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge.

Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Stillness is easy to maintain.

To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done.