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Tao Te Ching

The Tao Te Ching (Traditional Chinese: 道德經 , roughly translatable as The Book of the Way and its Virtue , is a Chinese classic text. According to tradition, it was written around 600 BCE by the Taoist sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, "Old Master"), a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court. A careful reading of the text, however, suggests that it is a compilation of maxims sharing similar themes. The text's authenticity, authorship, and date of composition or compilation are still debated.

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74. Execution


If people were not afraid of death,
Then what would be the use of an executioner?

If people were only afraid of death,
And you executed everyone who did not obey,
No one would dare to disobey you.
Then what would be the use of an executioner?

People fear death because death is an instrument of fate.
When people are killed by execution rather than by fate,
This is like carving wood in the place of a carpenter.
Those who carve wood in place of a carpenter
Often injure their hands.

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  • 01. The Way
  • 02. Abstraction
  • 03. Without Action
  • 04. Limitless
  • 05. Nature
  • 06. Experience
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  • 08. Water
  • 09. Retire
  • 10. Harmony
  • 11. Tools
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  • 13. Self
  • 14. Mystery
  • 15. Enlightenment
  • 16. Decay and Renewal
  • 17. Rulers
  • 18. Hypocrisy
  • 19. Simplify
  • 20. Wandering
  • 21. Accept
  • 22. Home
  • 23. Words
  • 24. Indulgence
  • 25. Beneath Abstraction
  • 26. Calm
  • 27. Perfection
  • 28. Becoming
  • 29. Ambition
  • 30. Violence
  • 31. Armies
  • 32. Shapes
  • 33. Virtues
  • 34. Control
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  • 36. Opposition
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  • 40. Motion and Use
  • 41. Following
  • 42. Mind
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  • 44. Contentment
  • 45. Quiet
  • 46. Horses
  • 47. Knowing
  • 48. Inaction
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  • 50. Death
  • 51. Nurture
  • 52. Clarity
  • 53. Difficult Paths
  • 54. Cultivate Harmony
  • 55. Soft Bones
  • 56. Impartiality
  • 57. Conquer with Inaction
  • 58. No End
  • 59. Restraint
  • 60. Demons
  • 61. Submission
  • 62. Sin
  • 63. Difficulty
  • 64 Care at the Beginning
  • 65. Subtlety
  • 66. Lead by Following
  • 67. Unimportance
  • 68. Compassion
  • 69. Ambush
  • 70. Individuality
  • 71. Limitation
  • 72. Revolution
  • 73. Fate
  • 74. Execution
  • 75. Rebellion
  • 76. Flexibility
  • 77. Need
  • 78. Yielding
  • 79. Reconciliation
  • 80. Utopia
  • 81. The Sage
  • Garden

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