Calm as a wooden rooster. No rival dares to fight.
Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi 19 (The Full Understanding of Life)
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Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi 19 (The Full Understanding of Life)
"Calm as a wooden rooster. No rival dares to fight." Zhuangzi said it in Zhuangzi 19 (The Full Understanding of Life). Translated from the original Chinese by Spartan Surfers.
"望之似木雞矣,其德全矣。異雞无敢應者,反走矣。"Original Chinese, Zhuangzi 19 (The Full Understanding of Life). Chinese: Zhuangzi text via zh.wikisource; chapter title after Legge 1891.
Zhuangzi (c. 369–286 BC). Taoist storyteller of the butterfly dream, the useless tree and the cook who never dulled his knife.
Calm as a wooden rooster. No rival dares to fight.
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