Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu (c. 6th and 5th centuries BCE)

“The way gives them life;
Virtue rears them;
Things give them shape;
Circumstances bring them to maturity.”

• From Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching (Book Two, LI), translated by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics, 1963).