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Laozi · Tao Te Ching

Chapter 40 of 81 · Book I

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The movement of the Tao By contraries proceeds; And weakness marks the course Of Tao’s mighty deeds.

All things under heaven sprang from It as existing (and named); that existence sprang from It as nonexistent (and not named).

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