Familiar Quotations

Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
Non-being penetrates that in which there is no space.
Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

He who knows others is wise;
He who knows himself is enlightened.

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil.