When things flourish they decline.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Pursue that which is not meddlesome.

She does not show herself, and therefore is apparent. She does not affirm herself, and therefore is acknowledged. She does not boast and therefore has merit. She does not strive and therefore is successful. It is exactly because she does not contend, that nobody can contend with her.

This is how they are able to continue and endure.

We listen to it, and we do not hear it, and we name it 'the Inaudible.

When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.