Tao Te Ching

“a moral philosopher rather than a preacher of religious faith [Confucius] far more resembles Socrates than Jesus… His followers foresaw the timeless influence he was to have in molding the courtesy and poise and placid wisdom of the Chinese.”

— Will Durant 1885 – 1981 CE
Philosophy apostle and popularizer of history's lessons
from Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time, 1968