Friday, April 10, 2026

Lao Tzu

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

“The sage has no mind of his own. He takes as his own the mind of the people.”

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

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