“Composure is the ruler of instability.”

“stillness, the ruler of movement.”

“The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.”

“In the highest antiquity, (the people) did not know that there were (their rulers).”

“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it”

“Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.”

“that the musical notes and tones become harmonious through the relation of one with another; and that being before and behind give the idea of one following another.”