“Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.”

“Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes it law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.”

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

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

“I will be fond of keeping still, and the people will of themselves become correct.”

“Heaven and Earth (under its guidance) unite together and send down the sweet dew, which, without the directions of men, reaches equally everywhere as of its own accord.”

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