But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.

All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.

Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.

A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.

Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.