Resolve your mental energy into abstraction, your physical energy into action. Allow yourself to fall in with the natural order of phenomena, without admitting the element of self, and the empire will be governed.

Perfect people have no self, spiritual people have no accomplishment, and sagely people have no name.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Our lives are limited, while knowledge is not. Pursuing the unlimited with the limited would be tiring. If you already knew that, it would be even more tiring.