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Chinese sayings again: love and reputation

juin 10th, 2009

Chinese sayings about kissing and reputation…

The first one sounds beautiful, romantic and is probably true, the second is the one that anyone should follow in his life. Reputation and others’ judgement don’t matter. What matters is to make your own life happy and, by the way, make others’ life as happy as possible. It might sound a little selfish, but I think that if you reach your own happiness, you will make all the people you love happy.

Enough talk, here are the chinese quotes:

Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases”

“Don’t consider your reputation and you may do anything you like”

You can also discover famous sayings by Lao Zi here and there

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Famous Chinese proverb: Lao Zi

juin 4th, 2009

From now on, and since that first article, I will try to find the most famous chinese proverbs, well at least those I like the most, and share all these quotations with you. There will be really short ones, but it doesn’t matter, chinese philosophers didn’t really need many words to say wise sentences.

« Running a large country is like cooking a small fish. »

I’m not a philosopher and I might not understand the meaning of this sentence from Lao Zi, but I guess it means that each of us has talents, skills, and even a man who can run a country might not be able to cook a fish.

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