If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

Thus it is said:The path into the light seems dark,the path forward seems to go back,the direct path seems long,true power seems weak,true purity seems tarnished,true steadfastness seems changeable,true clarity seems obscure,the greatest are seems unsophisticated,the greatest love seems indifferent,the greatest wisdom seems childish.The Tao is nowhere to be found.Yet it nourishes and completes all things.

Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. He who knows has no wide learning; he who has wide learning does not know.