The Tao Te Ching (dow de jing) was written by Lao Tzu, probably about the 5th Century B.C. and approximately at the time of Confucius. The title can be translated various ways, "The Book of the Way," "The Book of the Way and Its Power," "A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way," and so on.

The two translations I personally own and like are the Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English translation and the Ursula K. Le Guin translation. I was going to put them both up chapter by chapter, but I think there are some copyright issues. I did find an "interpolation" online by Peter Merel which is available* under the GPL, and I am in the process of putting that into the chapter nodes.

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*http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/ttcmerel.htm