- 吾
- wu2
- 1
- 生
- sheng1
- live
- 也
- ye3
- TOP
- 有
- you3
- have
- 涯,
- ya2
- shore/limit
‘My life has a limit,’
‘Ma vie a une limite,’
- 而
- er2
- and/but
- 知
- zhi1
- know
- 也
- ye3
- TOP
- 無
- wu2
- not.have
- 涯。
- ya2
- shore/limit
‘but knowledge has none.’
‘mais le savoir n’en a pas.’
- 以
- yi3
- with
- 有
- you3
- have
- 涯
- ya2
- shore/limit
- 隨
- sui2
- follow
- 無
- wu2
- not.have
- 涯,
- ya2
- shore/limit
- 殆
- dai4
- danger
- 已。
- yi3
- YI
‘To use the limited to pursue the unlimited is dangerous.’
‘Utiliser le limité pour poursuivre l’illimité, c’est dangereux.’
——Zhuangzi (ca. 369 BC - ca. 286 BC).