“With few there is attainment. With much there is confusion.”

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

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

“To know and yet (think) we do not know is the highest (attainment); not to know (and yet think) we do know is a disease.”

“Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.”

“One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.”

“Someone who is too insistent in his own views finds few to agree with him.”