"Careful, like crossing a river in the winter. Wary, as if surrounded by strangers."

"Therefore the sage manages affairs without doing anything, and conveys his instructions without the use of speech."

"The greatest skill is to seem unskilled; The greatest abundance is to seem empty."

"Stop thinking, and end your problems."

"He who values himself more than the world can be entrusted with the world. He who loves himself more than the world can be charged with the world."