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A young man should serve his parents at home and be respectful to elders outside his home. He should be earnest and truthful, loving all, but become intimate with humaneness. After doing this, if he has energy to spare, he can study literature and the arts.

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Persahabatan

Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard. When making a mistake, do not be afraid to correct it.

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Cinta

When the Superior Man (Junzi) eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, "he loves learning.

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Kehidupan

Also as Tao called Tao is not Tao.

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Kehidupan

Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English (1972)

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Kehidupan

interpreted by Ursula K. LeGuin (1998)

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Doa

The Tao is like a well: used but never used up. It is like the eternal void: filled with infinite possibilities. It is hidden but always present. I don't know who gave birth to it. It is older than God.

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Nasihat

The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

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Keluarga

The Tao is called the Great Mother: empty yet inexhaustible, it gives birth to infinite worlds.

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Kehidupan

The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself.

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Seni

Thirty spokes unite at the single hub; It is the empty space which makes the wheel useful. Mold clay to form a bowl; It is the empty space which makes the bowl useful. Cut out windows and doors; It is the empty space which makes the room useful.

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Waktu

Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not. How do I know this is true? I look inside myself and see.

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Sukses

A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!

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Nasihat

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

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Kebahagiaan

Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, take it and practice it earnestly. Scholars of the middle class, when they hear of it, take it half earnestly. Scholars of the lowest class, when they hear of it, laugh at it. Without the laughter, there would be no Tao.

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Marcus Aurelius

Doa

Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceive of doing it. And the simple way she lived—not in the least like the rich. (Hays translation)

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Marcus Aurelius

Kehidupan

Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called [Eupatridas Gk.], i.e. nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection.

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Marcus Aurelius

Cinta

Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love. (Hays translation)

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Marcus Aurelius

Harapan

Self-control and resistance to distractions. Optimism in adversity—especially illness. (Hays translation)

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Marcus Aurelius

Kehidupan

He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's acts.

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