Giving birth and nourishing,
Bearing yet not possessing,
Working yet not taking credit,
Leading yet not dominating,
This is the Primal Virtue.

Attending fully and becoming supple,
Can you be as a newborn babe?

Carrying body and soul and embracing the one,
Can you avoid separation?

What is a good man?
A teacher of a bad man.
What is a bad man?
A good man's charge?

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools.
He uses them only when he has no choice.

Force is followed by loss of strength.
This is not the way of the Tao.
That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.

The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.

A foolish man is always doing,
Yet much remains to be done.

Too much success is not an advantage.
Do not tinkle like jade
Or clatter like stone chimes.

I am good to people who are good.
I am also good to people who are not good.
Because Virtue is goodness.