practice no-action;

　　attend to do-nothing;

　　taste the flavorless,

　　magnify the small,

　　multiply the few,

　　return love for hate.

　　deal with the difficult while it is yet easy;

　　deal with the great while it is yet small;

　　the difficult develops naturally from the easy,

　　and the great from the small;

　　so the sage, by dealing with the small,

　　achieves the great.

　　who finds it easy to promise finds it hard to be trusted;

　　who takes things lightly finds things difficult;

　　the sage recognizes difficulty, and so has none.