Lao Tzu

Nik Marcel

The Tao Te Ching contains the teachings of Lao Tzu, and is considered a fundamental text of the Taoist tradition. The English text has been translated from the French.

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Tao Te Ching (for Novices)

Patricia Melova

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He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.

The punishment of the hook is nothing. The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything.

‘I’d like to buy some [luck] if there's any place they sell it,’ he said.

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“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

Now is no time to think of what you do not have.

Think of what you can do with that there is

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

“Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.”

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