Tao Te Ching
Laozi · translated by James Legge
Eighty-one short chapters on the Tao, the Way, and on ruling by yielding rather than force. In James Legge’s 1891 translation.
First published c. 6th c. BCE · 39,530 words · about 3 hours to read · 176 pages at 10.3″
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