Tao Te Ching

“I feared, loved, suffered did, and died…
If I have been extinguished, yet there arise
A thousand beacons from the spark I bore
The great, the unforgotten: they who wore
Signs of thought’s empire over thought; their lore”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822 CE via Shan Dao, editor
from Triumph of Life