福者禍之門也,是者非之尊也, 治者亂之先也。
Blessings are the gateway to disaster and correctness the ancestor of error.
Good order is the predecessor of turmoil.
事無終始而患不及者,未之聞也。
That events should transpire in ways unrelated to cyclical processes and that disasters should fail to arrive are both unheard of things.
Three Principles