“All difficult things in the world are sure to arise from a previous state in which they were easy, and all great things from one in which they were small.”

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

“not to prize articles which are difficult to procure is the way to keep them from becoming thieves;”

“All things under heaven sprang from It as existing (and named); that existence sprang from”

“All things return (to their root and disappear), and do not know that it is it which presides over their doing so;—it may be named in the greatest things.”

“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.”

“that (the ideas of) height and lowness arise from the contrast of the one with the other;”