“The sage produces without possessing, acts without expectations, and accomplishes without abiding in her accomplishments. It is precisely because she does not abide in them that they never leave her.”

“Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.”

“Therefore the sage, while he never does what is great, is able on that account to accomplish the greatest things.”

“Act without expectation.”

“Therefore the sage manages affairs without doing anything, and conveys his instructions without the use of speech.”

“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).”

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”