Tao Te Ching

“Ovid, the great romanticist of a classic age, used a simple vocabulary that made him a pleasure to read. He developed scenes vividly realized with insight and imagery, characters brought to life by touches of psychological subtlety, and phrases compact with experience or thought—all with an unfailing grace of speech and flowing ease of line... here is the treasury from which 100,000 poems, paintings, and statues have taken their themes.”

— Will Durant 1885 – 1981 CE via Shan Dao
Philosophy apostle and popularizer of history's lessons
from Caesar and Christ