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Tao Te Ching

Words attributed to Laozi

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  • What korrents draws from it

    The Tao that can be walked is not the enduring, unchanging Tao, and the name that can be named is not the enduring name, The highest excellence is like water, which benefits all things and takes the low place without striving, Those whose desires are few get what they want, and those whose desires are many go astray …

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Key facts

Edition korrents quotes
tr. James Legge, 18912
Claims on korrents
121

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. The Tao that can be walked is not the enduring, unchanging Tao, and the name that can be named is not the enduring name (opens korrents.com)1

  2. The highest excellence is like water, which benefits all things and takes the low place without striving (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Those whose desires are few get what they want, and those whose desires are many go astray (opens korrents.com)1

  4. Knowing others is discernment and knowing oneself is intelligence; overcoming oneself is mightier than overcoming others (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Those who know the Tao do not care to speak about it; those ever ready to speak about it do not know it (opens korrents.com)1

  6. The more prohibitions and display of legislation in a state, the poorer the people and the more thieves and robbers (opens korrents.com)1

Connections

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Sources

  1. Tao Teh King, traditionally ascribed to Laozi (tr. James Legge, 1891) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. Tao Teh King, traditionally ascribed to Laozi (tr. James Legge, 1891) (gutenberg.org) (opens gutenberg.org)

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