No axe comes for what has no use. What could trouble it?
Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi 1 (Enjoyment in Untroubled Ease)
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Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi 1 (Enjoyment in Untroubled Ease)
"No axe comes for what has no use. What could trouble it?" Zhuangzi said it in Zhuangzi 1 (Enjoyment in Untroubled Ease). Translated from the original Chinese by Spartan Surfers.
"不夭斤斧,物无害者,无所可用,安所困苦哉?"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.
No axe comes for what has no use. What could trouble it?
Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi 1 (Enjoyment in Untroubled Ease)
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