Fifty-Ninth Chapter
Tao-te Ching
To rule people and to serve Nature there is nothing better than frugality.
Only by being frugal can one learn to restrain.
To restrain oneself means to accumulate virtue heavily.
By the heavy accumulation of virtue one can overcome everything.
If one can overcome everything, then there are no limits.
When a man knows no limits, he is [...]
Fifty-Eighth Chapter
Tao-te Ching
When the ruler knows his heart,
the people are simple and contented.
When he meddles with their lives,
they become restless and contentious.
Calamity is what happiness leans on.
Happiness is what calamity hides in.
Who knows the end of this process?
Yet what is good soon becomes bad.
And the bad again becomes good.
People have been confused (by this) for [...]
Fifty-Seventh Chapter
Tao-te Ching
Govern the state with the Tao.
Operate with surprise tactics.
Let go of fixed plans and concepts.
And the world will govern by itself.
How do I know that this should be so?
Because in this world,
The greater the restrictions and prohibitions,
the more impoverished the people become.
The sharper the weapons of the state,
the more troubled the nation will [...]