"May you live in interesting times" is a made-up American thing that isn't actually Chinese but I don't mind it so much because the sentiment it expresses is accurate to Chinese beliefs (as well as being generally accurate) The one that gets me is "crisis = danger + opportunity"
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Plus a healthy fear keeps you from using a gun as a sex toy or trying to use fireworks to propel you down the street on roller skates.
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I don't know if it's true, but I've heard there was a Roman saying that went "he who fights and runs away lives to fight another day". (the fact that it scans so well in English suggests it's not, but apparently the concept was still a thing)
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Both danger and crisis are things that I think people should avoid , so I think that one might actually be more of a warning than a call to action. .. old sayings are often misinterpreted /1
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For example "Verba volant, scripta manent" gets translated as "spoken words fly away, written words remain" ... But if you take the implications (and literacy habits at the time) it's more "the spoken word has wings, the written words remain dead"
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Perfect summation of why I don't work for myself
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