A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.

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

I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things.

Big? Sure. But, he can't catch mice! So for your big tree. No use? Then plant it in the wasteland - in emptiness. Walk idly around it and rest under it's shadow. No axe or saw prepares its end. No one will ever cut it down. Useless? You should worry!.

The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.

The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.