大成若缺，其用不弊。
　　大盈若冲，其用不穷。
　　大直若屈，
　　大巧若拙，
　　大辩若讷。
　　
　　躁胜塞，
　　静胜热，
　　清静以为天下正。

　　Who thinks his great achievements poor
　　Shall find his vigour long endure.
　　Of greatest fulness, deemed a void,
　　Exhaustion ne'er shall stem the tide.
　　Do thou what's straight still crooked deem;
　　Thy greatest art still stupid seem,
　　And eloquence a stammering scream.
　　
　　Constant action overcomes cold;
　　being still overcomes heat.
　　Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.