Laozi zugeschrieben
«Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.»
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Es steht nicht im Werk von Laozi
No correspondence in the Daodejing. Possibly a very loose paraphrase of chapter 67 ("compassion gives courage"), turned into a sentimental maxim.
Quelle: Chinese Text Project. «Dao De Jing» (道德經), texto chino con traducción de James Legge en paralelo.
Was wirklich gesagt wurde
Belegte Worte von Laozi
«The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.»
Daodejing, capítulo 1 (trad. inglesa de Legge, 1891)
«The highest excellence is like that of water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving, the low place.»
Daodejing, capítulo 8
«The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty space for the axle that the use of the wheel depends.»
Daodejing, capítulo 11