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So taul soria thei callu? ("So what is life for?" translation)

From:William Annis <annis@...>
Date:Friday, March 1, 2002, 19:32
 >From: J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
 >
 >"...So what is life for? Life is for beauty and substance and sound and
 >colour; and even those are often forbidden by law [socio-cultural
 >conventions]. . . . Why not be free and live your own life? Why follow other
 >people's rules and live to please others?..." ~Lieh-Tzu/Liezi, Taoist Sage
 >(c. 450- c. 375 BCE) ~~~

        I don't suppose anyone happens to know of a nice on-line
version of this text, and perhaps a chapter/line attestation?  I'd
love to see the Chinese text before getting to attached to a Vaior
translation.

--
William Annis  -  System Administrator -  Biomedical Computing Group
"When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do
towards other humans."                       Marcus Aurelius  VII.65