Nineteen years, thousands of oxen, and the blade still looks new.
Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi 3 (Nourishing the Lord of Life)
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Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi 3 (Nourishing the Lord of Life)
"Nineteen years, thousands of oxen, and the blade still looks new." Zhuangzi said it in Zhuangzi 3 (Nourishing the Lord of Life). Translated from the original Chinese by Spartan Surfers.
"今臣之刀,十九年矣,所解數千牛矣,而刀刃若新發於硎。"Original Chinese, Zhuangzi 3 (Nourishing the Lord 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.
Nineteen years, thousands of oxen, and the blade still looks new.
Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi 3 (Nourishing the Lord of Life)
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