MODERN CLASSICS EDITION

Tao Te Ching

by Lao Tzu

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom."

"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."

RESOURCES

• Original translation (James Legge, 1891).
• Background information about the translation, the translator, and the context he was working in.