Home›Tao Te Ching›Language›Classical ChineseBrowse ByClassical ChineseThis page groups scripture portions by the language they are actually read in. Wikipedia notes that "this equation of the written word with religious texts is particular to the English language, and is not retained in most other languages, which usually add an adjective like 'sacred' to denote religious texts." Browsing by language lets a visitor find every portion read in the same tongue.FactsClassical ChineseSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedScripture Portions 1Classical ChineseFilter Results83 entriesOriginates In LanguageAllClassical Chinese (83)Authored ByAllLaozi (83)Attributed ToAllLaozi (83)Belongs To TraditionAllTaoism (83)Parent ScriptureAllTao Te Ching (83)ThemeAllA four-stage account of how anything comes to be what it is (1)A list of paradoxes, and laughter offered as evidence (1)A ranking of rulers in which invisibility is best (1)A survey of interventions and their opposite results (1)A victory treated as a funeral (1)Blandness as the mark of what is inexhaustible (1)Diplomacy conducted from the low ground (1)Emptiness as an inexhaustible source, older than the gods (1)Excellence that looks like its opposite (1)Greatness accomplished by refusing to be great (1)Knowledge that does not require going anywhere (1)Martial excellence defined entirely by what it does not do (1)Non-action as the closing statement of the first part (1)Rulers who name themselves by words of loss (1)Scale: dealing with a thing while it is still small (1)Self-display as the exact thing that defeats itself (1)Self-interest served by setting the self aside (1)Skill that leaves no trace, and nobody written off (1)Small sight and soft holding named as the strong positions (1)Softness entering where there is no opening (1)Something real inside what cannot be pinned down (1)Stimulation as a form of impairment (1)Subtraction as a discipline, set against accumulation (1)The clearest political indictment in the book (1)The evidence of corpses, used as an argument for softness (1)The low position as the source of the high one (1)The way as a refuge that does not exclude the guilty (1)Three questions about what a life is being spent on (1)Two kinds of courage, and a net that nothing escapes (1)War fought defensively, and grief as the deciding factor (1)Weight and stillness as the ground of authority (1)What happens to a population that has stopped being afraid (1)Literary formAllaphorism-collection (83)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 83Chapter 1Classical ChineseChapter 10Classical ChineseChapter 11Classical ChineseChapter 12Classical ChineseChapter 13Classical ChineseChapter 14Classical ChineseChapter 15Classical ChineseChapter 16Classical ChineseChapter 17Classical ChineseChapter 18Classical ChineseChapter 19Classical ChineseChapter 2Classical ChineseChapter 20Classical ChineseChapter 21Classical ChineseChapter 22Classical ChineseChapter 23Classical ChineseChapter 24Classical ChineseChapter 25Classical ChineseChapter 26Classical ChineseChapter 27Classical ChineseChapter 28Classical ChineseChapter 29Classical ChineseChapter 3Classical ChineseChapter 30Classical ChineseChapter 31Classical ChineseChapter 32Classical ChineseChapter 33Classical ChineseChapter 34Classical ChineseChapter 35Classical ChineseChapter 36Classical ChineseChapter 37Classical ChineseChapter 38Classical ChineseChapter 39Classical ChineseChapter 4Classical ChineseChapter 40Classical ChineseChapter 41Classical ChineseChapter 42Classical ChineseChapter 43Classical ChineseChapter 44Classical ChineseChapter 45Classical ChineseChapter 46Classical ChineseChapter 47Classical ChineseChapter 48Classical ChineseChapter 49Classical ChineseChapter 5Classical ChineseChapter 50Classical ChineseChapter 51Classical ChineseChapter 52Classical ChineseChapter 53Classical ChineseChapter 54Classical ChineseChapter 55Classical ChineseChapter 56Classical ChineseChapter 57Classical ChineseChapter 58Classical ChineseChapter 59Classical ChineseChapter 6Classical ChineseChapter 60Classical ChineseChapter 61Classical ChineseChapter 62Classical ChineseChapter 63Classical ChineseChapter 64Classical ChineseChapter 65Classical ChineseChapter 66Classical ChineseChapter 67Classical ChineseChapter 68Classical ChineseChapter 69Classical ChineseChapter 7Classical ChineseChapter 70Classical ChineseChapter 71Classical ChineseChapter 72Classical ChineseChapter 73Classical ChineseChapter 74Classical ChineseChapter 75Classical ChineseChapter 76Classical ChineseChapter 77Classical ChineseChapter 78Classical ChineseChapter 79Classical ChineseChapter 8Classical ChineseChapter 80Classical ChineseChapter 81Classical ChineseChapter 9Classical ChineseDao JingClassical ChineseDe JingClassical ChineseSources1. 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