"Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided...." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“High and low rest on each other.”

“We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from birth to death are also three out of ten. Why is that so? Because they want to make too much of life.”

“Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.”

“No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?”

“Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.”

“A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.”

“The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.”

“There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.”

“Truly, only acting without thought of one's life is superior to valuing one's life.”