Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.

Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.

The creature born is the creature dying.

Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone

Heaven does nothing: its non-doing is its serenity. Earth does nothing: its non-doing is its rest. From the union of these two non-doings All actions proceed. All things are made. How vast, how invisible This coming-to-be! All things come from nowhere! How vast, how invisible No way to explain it! All beings in their perfection Are born of non-doing. Hence it is said: Heaven and earth do nothing Yet there is nothing they do not do. Where is the man who can attain To this non-doing?

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.