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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 ...
Background: I am writing a WP-article about the subject (still waiting for a book to arrive which contains the "official" translation of the parable [which you can find 100.000-fold on the web - but with all kinds of additions and twists]).
Simple English; Tagalog; ... The old man lost his horse; Parable of the Olive Tree; ... Parable of the drowning man; Parable of the Poisoned Arrow;
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
The Old Cat and the Young Mouse (Le vieux chat et la jeune souris, XII.5) The Old Man and his Sons (Le vieillard et ses fils, IV.18) The Old Man and the Ass (Le vieillard et l'âne, VI.8) Phoebus and Boreas (Phébus et Borée, VI.3) The thieves and the ass (Les voleurs et l’âne, I.13) The torrent and the river (Le torrent et la rivière ...
In Spanish, the book is called “Tu sueño imperios han sido” — a line borrowed from a baroquely beautiful poem that means “your dreams empires have been.”
Emulating the fables of the ancient Greek Aesop, the Macedonian-Roman Phaedrus, the Polish Biernat of Lublin, and the Frenchman Jean de La Fontaine, and anticipating Russia's Ivan Krylov, Poland's Krasicki populates his fables with anthropomorphized animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature, in epigrammatic expressions of a skeptical, ironic view of the world.
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