The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.

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

Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.

To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.

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

Those who realise their folly are not true fools.

...the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.