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

“All difficult things in the world are sure to arise from a previous state in which they were easy, and all great things from one in which they were small.”

“The difficulty in governing the people arises from their having much knowledge.”

“So it is that existence and non-existence give birth the one to (the idea of) the other;”

“There are few in the world who attain to the teaching without words, and the advantage arising from non-action.”

“Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?”

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