Tao Te Ching · James Legge (1891)
Chapter 40
1The movement of the Tao By contraries proceeds; And weakness marks the course Of Tao's mighty deeds.
2All things under heaven sprang from It as existing (and named); that existence sprang from It as non-existent (and not named).
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