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Tao Te Ching (Daodejing)

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Contents

  1. The Constant Way
  2. The Use of Contraries
  3. Keeping the People at Peace
  4. The Empty Source
  5. Heaven and Earth
  6. The Valley Spirit
  7. Lasting by Not Contending
  8. Like Water
  9. Knowing When to Stop
  10. Holding the One
  11. The Use of Emptiness
  12. Guarding the Senses
  13. Favor and Disgrace
  14. The Formless Form
  15. The Ancient Adepts
  16. Returning to Stillness
  17. The Best Rulers
  18. When the Way Declines
  19. Plainness and Simplicity
  20. Different from the Crowd
  21. The Shape of Great Virtue
  22. Bending to Become Whole
  23. Sparse Words
  24. What Cannot Last
  25. The Great Four
  26. The Heavy Root
  27. Subtle Skill
  28. Returning to Simplicity
  29. The Sacred Vessel
  30. Using Arms with Restraint
  31. Weapons and Mourning
  32. The Nameless Uncarved Block
  33. Knowing Self
  34. The Great Way
  35. Holding the Great Image
  36. Subtle Illumination
  37. The Way Does Not Force
  38. High Virtue
  39. Attaining the One
  40. Return
  41. Hearing the Way
  42. The Way Gives Birth
  43. The Softest Thing
  44. Fame and Life
  45. Great Completion
  46. Contentment and Order
  47. Knowing Without Going Out
  48. Less and Less
  49. The Sage's Heart
  50. Life and Death
  51. The Mystery of Virtue
  52. Returning to the Mother
  53. The Level Way
  54. Deep Roots
  55. The Newborn Child
  56. Mysterious Unity
  57. Governing with Uprightness
  58. Fortune and Misfortune
  59. Deep Roots and Long Vision
  60. Ruling a Great State
  61. The Lower Stream
  62. The Treasure of the Way
  63. Acting Without Forcing
  64. Care at the Beginning
  65. Ancient Governance
  66. Rivers and Seas
  67. Three Treasures
  68. Not Contending
  69. The Guest and Host
  70. Easy to Know, Hard to Practice
  71. Knowing Not-Knowing
  72. When the People Do Not Fear
  73. The Net of Heaven
  74. Punishment and Killing
  75. The People's Hunger
  76. Softness and Life
  77. The Bow of Heaven
  78. Water's Weakness
  79. Resolving Great Resentment
  80. A Small Country
  81. True Words

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