“Hence the sage puts away excessive effort, extravagance, and easy indulgence.”

“The sage shuns excess, shuns grandiosity, shuns arrogance.”

“The sage puts herself last and is first.”

“Therefore the sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found in the foremost place; he treats his person as if it were foreign to him, and yet that person is preserved.”

“Hence (its way) is near to (that of) the Tao.”

“Therefore the sage seeks to satisfy (the craving of) the belly, and not the (insatiable longing of the) eyes.”

“My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice.Yet your intellect will never grasp them,and if you try to practice them,you'll fail.My teachings are older than the world.How can you grasp their meaning?If you want to know me,Look inside your heart.”