Lao Tzu

Lucian Aeris

This short book has followed an eventful path since its inception over 2000 years ago, having morphed through many changes, rendered largely as a result of the old Chinese system of copying texts repeatedly onto fresh materials to save the writings from physical degradation. Other changes occured due to scholarly attention. Some say it was originally written by a man known as Lao Tzu (Old Master) and some say that Lao Tzu is a title under which many contributors coalesced. Whatever the case, this book is certainly unique and powerful, and has evolved over time in a way that couldn’t have been planned or predicted by any human being.

Tao Te Ching

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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