Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“She united with her ravishing beauty such a cultivated mind that she not only knows everything which it is customary to teach persons of her rank, but even the sciences which are only learned by men, she knows how to write the different characters of several languages, she knows arithmetic, geography, philosophy mathematics, and above all, theology.”

François Pétis de la Croix 1653 – 1713 CE via Jack Weatherford
Early and influential orientalist

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