A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet.
A tree that is unbending is easily broken.
Accept disgrace willingly. Accept misfortune as the human condition.
Knowing ignorance is strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness.
The more laws and restrictions there are, the poorer people become.
The more rules and regulations, the more thieves and robbers.
The more you do for others, the more you have. The more you give to others, the greater your abundance.
Therefore the wise avoid extremes, excesses, and complacency.
Therefore the wise know themselves but make no show, have self-respect but are not arrogant.
Those who do not trust enough will not be trusted.
Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.