Lao Zi 老子

Lao Zi (老子), 571 BC - 471 BC, an ancient Chinese thinker. Dao De Jing (道德经), the book recorded according his narrations, has been the primal source for Chinese philosophy for over two thousand years and still will be for the generations to come, and from it the Daoism was originated. Lao Zi has been also spelled as Lao Tsu or Lao Tzu, and Dao De Jing as Tao Te Ching.

-Dao De Jing - Chapter 1
-Dao De Jing - Chapter 2.1