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Tao Te Ching 78
Tao Te Ching
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Paragraphs 1 and 2. Legge's parenthesis is his own. The chapter goes on to quote an unnamed sage, which is one of the few places in the book that admits to citing someone else.
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TextThere is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing that can take precedence of it;, for there is nothing (so effectual) for which it can be changed. Every one in the world knows that the soft overcomes the hard, and the weak the strong, but no one is able to carry it out in practice. 1 Reference Scheme Translation
TranslationThe Texts of Taoism, Part I (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 39) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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