I quickly searched the comments and noticed there there is no mention of the James Legge translation. I checked them side-by-side for the first couple of pages,

I quickly searched the comments and noticed there there is no mention of the James Legge translation. I checked them side-by-side for the first couple of pages, and I like the Legge translation more (not trashing Le Guin's though). For anyone who may be interested: https://sacred-texts.com/tao/taote.htm https://sacred-texts.com/tao/taote.htm