Chapter 3 Part 1 The Crisis of the Qin Empire

It is not as good as it is to hold it and make it full, and it cannot be kept for a long time.The house is full of gold and jade, and there is no one who can keep it. Wealth and pride, leave the blame on yourself. ——Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching Chapter Nine" The water in any container should not be too full, otherwise it will overflow, so it is best to stop adding water before it is full. As long as the knife is usable, it is easy to use if it is sharpened too sharply, but it is easy to break and cannot be kept for a long time. A person who has too much wealth and too much power will be coveted by others, and he often falls into extravagance because of being too proud, so he cannot keep wealth for a long time.

Since wealth is a warning of a crisis, it is most necessary to keep a low profile and be humble. If you are proud of yourself by showing off instead, you will invite disaster. The principle of nature is "to be born but not to have, to do but not to rely on, to achieve success but not to live", so that success and retirement are the "Tao" of heaven.