An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.