Books of the Wise

This book contains two major philosophical treatises that influenced the religious and philosophical traditions, culture, and history of all East Asia. The "Tao Te Ching" is a unique monument of human thought. Created more than two thousand years ago, this book still remains an inexhaustible source of wisdom and reflections on being, justice, the nature of good and evil. "Conversations and Judgments" from the "Lunyu" is the main book of Confucianism and all Eastern culture. For many centuries, this treatise was considered essential for memorization in the classical education of the Celestial Empire.