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

“When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, there arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, there arises the recognition of evil.”

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

“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?”

“He constantly (tries to) keep them without knowledge and without desire, and where there are those who have knowledge, to keep them from presuming to act (on it).”

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

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