Laozi - Book of Way and Might

The Tao Te Ching by Laozi is the foundational text of Taoism and an oft-quoted font of Eastern wisdom. Here is presented a readable translation into everyday English, with the original Chinese in parallel. The Tao Te Ching has been translated into Western languages over 250 times. According to Holmes Welch, «It is a famous puzzle which everyone would like to feel he had solved.»