（23）道可道，非常道；名可名，非常名。无名，天地之始；有名，万物之母。
The Way that can be told of is not an unvarying Way; the names that can be named are not unvarying names. It was the nameless that Heaven and the Earth sprang from; it was the named that nurtured everything between the Heaven and the Earth.

（24）道在天地之间，其大无外，其小无内。
The Way fills up the universe. For its greatness, nothing lies outside it; for its smallness, nothing lies within it.

（25）得道者多助，失道者少助。
A just cause enjoys abundant support, while an unjust one finds little support.

（26）地势坤，君子以厚德载物。
As the Earth's capacity is to hold, so must a gentleman constantly cultivate virtue in himself to shoulder the world.

（27）读书破万卷，下笔如有神。
After poring over ten thousand volumes, you can write like one inspired.

（28）独在异乡为异客，每逢佳节倍思亲。
A lonely stranger in a strange land I am cast, I miss my family all the more on every festive day.

（29）非淡泊无以明志，非宁静无以致远。
Only when one is not here to seek glory and wealth can one have great ideals; only by being in peace at heart can one think and see far ahead.

（30）富贵不能淫，贫贱不能移，威武不能屈，此之后谓大丈夫。
It is a true great man whom no money and rank can confuse, no poverty and hardship can shake, and no power and force can suffocate.