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Tao Te Ching

Laozi/300 BCE / Classical Antiquity
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Verse in the Daoism tradition, oriented around nature and paradox.

The Tao Te Ching is a foundational Daoist classic traditionally attributed to Laozi and composed in brief, poetic chapters. It contrasts striving with effortless action, names with the nameless, social ambition with simplicity, and coercive rule with natural order.

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Chapters

The structural skeleton of the work