Is it not because he has no personal and private ends, that therefore such ends are realised? Lao Tzu
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. Lao Tzu
The getting that (favour) leads to the apprehension (of losing it), and the losing it leads to the fear of (still greater calamity):—this is what is meant by saying that favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared. Lao Tzu
The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty space (for the axle), that the use of the wheel depends. Lao Tzu
