He who knows himself is enlightened.
Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.
Blessings often give rise to injury, so be careful when things are going your way. Success may be achieved after failure, so don't just give up when you've been disappointed.
For a person who lives in time, differences are the most important thing because they represent your existence.
Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.
Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions.
The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.
Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one's downfall.
Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter how hard you meditate, you will not be happy and you won't be liberated.
The most able seems clumsy.
Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.
Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.
Compromise to please others is not as good as integrity that annoys others. Rather than be praised without being good, it is better to be slandered without being bad.
Stillness is easy to maintain.
When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.
Meet the big while it is small.
All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
Gain or loss, what is worse?