“Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose.”

“If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard our (scheming for) gain, there would be no thieves nor robbers.”

“The getting that (favour) leads to the apprehension (of losing it), and the losing it leads to the fear of (still greater calamity):—this is what is meant by saying that favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared.”

“If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”

“To know and yet (think) we do not know is the highest (attainment); not to know (and yet think) we do know is a disease.”

“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.”

“He who would so win it destroys it; he who would hold it in his grasp loses it.”