Tao Te Ching · James Legge (1891)
Chapter 43
1The softest thing in the world dashes against and overcomes the hardest; that which has no (substantial) existence enters where there is no crevice. I know hereby what advantage belongs to doing nothing (with a purpose).
2There are few in the world who attain to the teaching without words, and the advantage arising from non-action.
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