A skillful commander is not overbearing. A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One who is skillful in using men puts himself below them. This is called the strength to use men. This is called matching Heaven, The highest principle of old.
The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.
Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.
Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.
Everything will settle in its own place automatically.
Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue.
The inner is the foundation of the outer. The still is master of the restless. The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner treasure.
If princes and kings could follow it (Tao), all things would by themselves abide, Heaven and Earth would unite and sweet dew would fall. People would by themselves find harmony, without being commanded.
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.
Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
The purest white seems stained.
Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.
True power is stillness within motion.
Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.
The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.
The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
The great image lacks shape.
The wise person dines on something more subtle: He eats the understanding that the named was born from the unnamed, that all being flows from non-being, that the describable world emanates from an indescribable source.
The way of heaven is to help and not harm.
Peace and quiet govern the world.
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