Attribuée à Laozi
«Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.»
Fausse attribution
Verdict
Elle ne figure pas dans l'œuvre de Laozi
Attributed indiscriminately to Laozi, Confucius or a "Chinese proverb". It is found neither in the Daodejing nor in the Analects; its modern form is first documented in English in Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie's novel Mrs. Dymond (1885).
Source: Chinese Text Project. «Dao De Jing» (道德經), texto chino con traducción de James Legge en paralelo.
Ce qu'il a vraiment dit
Paroles vérifiées de 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