“When wealth and honours lead to arrogancy, this brings its evil on itself.”

“Boasting of wealth and virtue brings your demise.”

“Give evil nothing to opposeand it will disappear by itself.”

“This honouring of the Tao and exalting of its operation is not the result of any ordination, but always a spontaneous tribute.”

“Therefore he who would administer the kingdom, honouring it as he honours his own person, may be employed to govern it, and he who would administer it with the love which he bears to his own person may be entrusted with it.”

“The sage shuns excess, shuns grandiosity, shuns arrogance.”

“When men lost their understanding of the Tao, intelligence came along, bringing hypocrisy with it.”