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“The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.”
Tao Te Ching, Ch. 1, Section 1·6th century BCE
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Lao Tzu
老子
6th century BCE · Taoism
Legendary Chinese philosopher and founder of Taoism.
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