If the water isn't deep, it can't carry a big boat.
Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi 1 (Enjoyment in Untroubled Ease)
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Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi 1 (Enjoyment in Untroubled Ease)
"If the water isn't deep, it can't carry a big boat." Zhuangzi said it in Zhuangzi 1 (Enjoyment in Untroubled Ease). Translated from the original Chinese by Spartan Surfers.
"且夫水之積也不厚,則負大舟也无力。"Original Chinese, Zhuangzi 1 (Enjoyment in Untroubled Ease). 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.
If the water isn't deep, it can't carry a big boat.
Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi 1 (Enjoyment in Untroubled Ease)
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