If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for

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.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop.

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy

The hundred parts of the body are all complete in their places. Which should one prefer? Do you like them all equally? Are they all servants? Are they unable to control one another and need a ruler? Or do they become rulers and servants in turn? Is there any true ruler other than themselves?

Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.