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What are the famous life sayings in Zhuangzi?

The arrangement of world famous sentences in Zhuangzi is as follows:

1. Most people know leisure, while others know little; Big words are hot, small words are Zhan Zhan.

Translation: The most intelligent person always shows an open-minded attitude; Small and talented people always haggle over trifles. The words that conform to the avenue are like a prairie fire, both beautiful and grand, which makes people convinced. Those clever remarks are trivial and nonsense.

2. Although I can't cure my illness, I wish the corpse would take its place.

Although the chef doesn't make sacrifices, the emcee who presides over the sacrifices won't do it instead of the chef. This means that although the man is not doing his duty, the corpse wishes to act on his behalf without going beyond the scope of his functions and powers of offering sacrifices to the gods. It shows Zhuangzi's thought of governing by doing nothing, from which the idiom "meddling" comes.

3. My life is limited, but so is my knowledge.

Translation: Human life is limited, but knowledge is infinite. Put your limited life into infinite learning.

4. put out the fire with fire and save the water with water, which is called more benefits.

Using fire to put out the fire and using water to save the water will not only make things right, but will increase the fault. Under the guise of what Confucius taught Yan Hui, this paper expounds a way of life. The idioms "put out the fire with fire" and "save the water with water" come out here.

5, the mountain wood is self-defeating, and the paste is self-fried. The cinnamon is edible, so it is cut; Paint can be used, so cut it. Everyone knows what is useful, but not what is useless.

Translation: The trees growing on the mountain are cut down because of natural needs, and the resin is burned because of lighting, so the osmanthus trees are edible, so they are cut down; Paint can be used, so it is skinned. Everyone knows the useful use, but not the useless use. Useful and promising will be harmful, and useless and inaction will be bliss. This paper expounds the "useless use" that is often ignored, and contains simple dialectics.