Section 50 claims that three out of ten people are followers of life and three out of ten are followers of death, while another 30% of people are just passing from birth to death.  
Section 5 remarks that the wise see people as "straw dogs," a kind of animal that was used for sacrifice and then discarded.  Section 50 claims that three out of ten people are followers of life and three out of ten are followers of death, while another 30% of people are just passing from birth to death.  Section 34 notes that the titular concept nourishes the ten thousand things, and yet it is not their lord, being very small.  The 81st and final section states that good men do not argue and the learned do not know.  This book was probably written in the 6th century BC by a man who is thought to have been archivist to a Chou emperor, and was allegedly written at the request of an officer in charge of the Jade Gate.  FTP, name this classic Chinese text by Lao Tsu.
Section 5 remarks that the wise see people as "straw dogs," a kind of animal that was used for sacrifice and then discarded.  
the Tao Te Ching or The Way of Life or The Way and Its Power or Book of the Tao and Its Power or other English variants that sound reasonable