> Reliable words are plain, and decorated words are unreliable.
> 信頼に足る言葉には飾り気がなく、耳障りの良い言葉は信頼するに足りない。
> 信言(しんげん)は美ならず、美言(びげん)は信ならず。
> 信言不美、美言不信
https://blog.mage8.com/roushi-81
#PlainStyle #平易文体 #老子文体 #LaoTseStyle #ちょんまげ英語日誌 #ChonMageLaoTse #LaoTzu #LaoTse #Laozi #LaoZiStyle
劣化ウランとクラスター爆弾が思い浮ぶ、 ダイオキシンとPFASなども...
> 師之所處、荊棘生焉、大軍之後、必有凶年。
> 荊棘(けいきょく)焉(ここ)に生じ、大軍の後は、必ず凶年(きょうねん)あり。善くする者は果たして已(や)む。
> 軍隊が通った後の農地は荒れ果てるので、大軍が通った土地は必ず凶作になってしまう。
> Where armies are quartered briars and thorns grow. Great wars unfailingly are followed by famines. A good man acts resolutely and then stops. He ventures not to take by force.
https://blog.mage8.com/roushi-30
http://web.archive.org/web/20110106053453/http://home.pages.at/onkellotus/TTK/English_Suzuki_TTK.html#Kap30
Has anyone made a current translation with DU and Cluster Bombs?
.> The land where an army passed becomes desolated. After war, lean years come. ^1.> 師之所處、荊棘生焉、大軍之後、必有凶年。 ^7> #BrianUrquhart observed that he was remarkably free of the desire to take credit, to justify himself or to blame others when things went wrong."
This and a few other quotes had me looking through #LaoTzu #老子 chapters to find descriptions of soft-like-water leadership of the sage/saint.
> He never competes with others, and nobody can compete with him.
- https://blog.mage8.com/roushi-66
- https://blog.mage8.com/roushi-07
- https://blog.mage8.com/roushi-77
#humility #HumbleLeading
#ちょんまげ英語日誌
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