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Starting from the original parable, different versions of the story have been written, which are described in books and on the internet under titles such as The Taoist Farmer, The Farmer and his Horse, The Father, His Son and the Horse, The Old Man Loses a Horse, etc. The story is mostly cited in philosophical or religious texts and management ...
Based on the 2200 year old parable of The Daoist Farmer who lost his Horse (horse +one comes back, son rides horse, breaks leg, soldiers get drafted, son gets spared..), the Chinese are supposted to have a proverb saying "Sai Ong lost a horse..." meaning "Okay, bad luck right now, but who knows...?". (a) Is that true?
("The wise tell us that a nail keeps a shoe, a shoe a horse, a horse a man, a man a castle, that can fight.") [7] For sparinge of a litel cost, Fulofte time a man hath lost, The large cote for the hod. ("For sparing a little cost often a man has lost the large coat for the hood.") [8] [whose translation?] [9]
Simple English; Tagalog; ... The old man lost his horse; Parable of the Olive Tree; ... Parable of the drowning man; Parable of the Poisoned Arrow;
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all; To be worn out is to be renewed – Laozi, Chinese philosopher (604 BC – c. 531 BC) [11] To each his own; To err is human, to forgive divine; To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world (Chinese proverb) [5] To the victor go the spoils
old man from the frontier lost his horse: a blessing in disguise See Huainanzi: 刻舟求劍 (kè zhōu qiú jiàn) carve the boat in search of the sword approach without considering the reality of a situation See Lüshi Chunqiu: 火中取栗 (huǒ zhōng qǔ lì) take chestnuts out of the fire Someone acting in another's interest
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The two drive the horses down into the deeps of Busiltjörn, and all of the horses swim back to land but a large, young, and handsome gray horse that no one had ever mounted. The grey-bearded old man says that the horse is from "Sleipnir's kin" and that "he must be nourished heedfully, for it will be the best of all horses". The old man vanishes.