Chapter 62
IndexAct without acting, manage without managing, taste without tasting.
Whether great or small, many or few, repay enmity with virtue.
Plan for the difficult while it is still easy, act on the great while it is still small; the most difficult things in the world must be done while they are still easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small.
Therefore, the sage never acts to be great, and thus can achieve true greatness.
Indeed, making promises lightly leads to little trust; excessive ease brings excessive difficulty.
Therefore, the sage still treats things as difficult, and thus in the end encounters no difficulties.