Directness can be used in governing, but nowhere else. Deception can be used in warfare, but that is all. Only those who practice non-action are fit to rule the world.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God's wrath. For it is written: "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord."

Do not be the slave of first impressions… Wait for the second or even the third edition of the news.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Do not believe, or like, lightly… Lying is the usual thing, so then let belief be unusual.

Do not do to others what you don’t want done to yourself.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

Do not leave any traces and inside and outside will merge into one totality.

Do not make much ado about nothing… Troublesome things should not be taken too seriously… It is preposterous to take to heart what should be thrown over your shoulders.

Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.

Do not repeat the means of victory respond to form from the inexhaustible.

Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it… The wise never confess to being hit… Never disclose the source of pain or of joy, if you wish the one to cease and the other to endure.

doing not doing… not a statement susceptible to logical interpretation, or even to syntactical translation into English; but it’s a concept that transforms thought radically, that changes minds.

Don't bring things to a painful point.

Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

Don’t chase after people’s approval. Don’t depend on your plans. Don’t make decisions; let decisions make themselves.

Don’t control what you experience. Just rest in how things are.

Don’t follow leaders, watch the parking meters.