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Sage Echo
典 籍 说
Ancient Chinese classics —
translated into English, narrated aloud,
for readers everywhere.
The Library · 藏 书 阁
Ming Dynasty · 1590
Vegetable Roots of Wisdom
菜根谭 · 洪应明
Honor or disgrace, remain unmoved — watch the flowers bloom and fall in the courtyard.
Zhou Dynasty · c. 400 BC
Tao Te Ching
道德经 · 老子
The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao.
Spring and Autumn · c. 475 BC
The Analects
论语 · 孔子
To learn and then practice what one has learned — is this not a pleasure?
Warring States · c. 300 BC
The Zhuangzi
庄子
Once I dreamed I was a butterfly. Now I do not know — was I a man dreaming of a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of a man?
Spring and Autumn · c. 500 BC
The Art of War
孙子兵法 · 孙武
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Warring States · c. 300 BC
Mencius
孟子
The great man is he who never loses the heart of a child.