Chuang Tzu (c. 370-287 BCE)
“All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!”
- Chuang Tzu’s Basic Writings (section 4, “In the World of Men”), translated by Burton Watson. (Columbia University Press, 1996).
Chuang Tzu
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)
“It is ill-manners to silence a Fool, and Cruelty to let him go on.”
- From Poor Richard’s Almanac by Benjamin Franklin. The edition used here was reprinted by Seven Treasures Publications, 2008.
