Chapter 18 of Laotse's TaoTeChing

We can learn the siprit of Laotse/Laozi and Taoism from this chapter of TaoTeChing/DaoDeJing. Laotse/Laozi knows the characters of human being very well. He thinks that the sages, humanity, righteousness and law would be useless when the Tao is destroyed. Following is the original text of this chapter of TaoTeChing/DaoDeJing.

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When the natural principle ceased to be observed, the community is anomic, benevolence and righteousness came into vogue; Machiavellian ingenuity is prevailed, and there ensued great hypocrisy and fraud; The filial piety will not be regarded until harmony no longer prevailed throughout the six kinships and the ethic is destroyed; only when the states and clans fell into disorder, loyal ministers appeared.

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