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Being adaptable is often what destroys a thing; being unable to do something can keep it out of the snare
Drawn from what Zhuangzi said
What Zhuangzi actually said
- Zhuangzi Chinese Daoist philosopher of the fourth century BC…
The adaptability of a thing is oft-times its bane. The inability of the yak to catch mice saves it from the snare which is fatal to the wild cat.
Where this was said
↗Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer (tr. Herbert A. Giles, 1889)gutenberg.org
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