Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

“Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.”

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

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