“What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.”

“This returning to their root is what we call the state of stillness; and that stillness may be called a reporting that they have fulfilled their appointed end.”

“This is what is called 'The mysterious Quality' (of the Tao).”

“What makes me liable to great calamity is my having the body (which I call myself); if I had not the body, what great calamity could come to me?”

“They shall wear elegant and ornamented robes, carry a sharp sword at their girdle, pamper themselves in eating and drinking, and have a superabundance of property and wealth;—such (princes) may be called robbers and boasters.”

“All in the world know the beauty of the beautiful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what ugliness is;”

“The master dwells in the substantial and not in the superficial. Rests in the fruit and not in the flower.”