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Tao Te Ching

Laozi

Tao Te Ching

Paper book: €11.99

Digital: €1.99

Original publication
400 BC
Pages
179
Difficulty
Hard
Genres
Philosophy, Poetic
Moods
Think it through, Understand myself, Savour the writing
Translated from
English

Book summary

Attributed to the Chinese sage Lao Tzu, this little book gathers eighty-one short poems about the Tao, the way that guides all things. It praises water, which overcomes stone through its softness, and emptiness, which makes a vessel useful.

For more than two thousand years, its readers have learnt from it how to act without forcing, to stay simple and to find calm.

Its very short texts can be read one by one, at your own pace, in the language you are learning.

The plot

大事始於小。「合抱之木,生於毫末;九層之臺,起於累土。」。

The world of the book

2500年前,智者的中國。當時的中國分裂為相互爭雄的諸國。智者們奔走列國,為君王出謀獻策。

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