Wisdom is the understanding that knowledge is useless. The failure to understand that knowledge is useless is sickness. Actually those are my words. All that is best can be seen to be like water. Water benefits everything and yet exerts no effort.
Water finds the lowest places, shunned by all.
In this water is the closest to the Great Way . To end strife ignore the talented. Encourage ignorance so the shrewd will be impotent. In bad times everyone respects the emperor. In times of tragedy everyone despises the emperor.