The great Tao flows everywhere. All things are born from it, yet it doesn't create them.

If you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever.

If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

All things end in the Tao, as rivers flow into the sea.

Knowing when to stop, you can avoid any danger.

When you have institutions, know where their functions should end.

When you have names and forms, know that they are provisional.

If powerful men and women could remain centered in the Tao all people would be at peace, and the law would be written in their hearts.