“And when (one with the highest excellence) does not wrangle (about his low position), no one finds fault with him.”

“Because he does not strive, no one finds it possible to strive with him.”

“The highest excellence is like (that of) water.”

“One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.”

“Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice.”

“The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving (to the contrary), the low place which all men dislike.”

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