# Tao Te Ching

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- Book: [Tao Te Ching](https://www.bookquiver.com/laozi/tao-te-ching) ([Tao Te Ching.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/laozi/tao-te-ching.md))
- Authors: [Lao-Tzu](https://www.bookquiver.com/laozi)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-131-4
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2003-06-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius (551 - 479 BC), it is now thought that the work was compiled in about the fourth century BC. An anthology of wise sayings, it offers a model by which the individual can live rather than explaining the human place in the universe. The moral code it encourages is based on modesty and self-restraint, and the rewards reaped for such a life are harmony and flow of life.