巧诈不如拙诚 (巧詐不如拙誠) qiǎo zhà bù rú zhuō chéng
qiǎo zhà bù rú zhuō chéng
phrase
it is better to be simplictically honest than cleverly deceitful
Domain: Proverb 谚语
Notes: From Han Feizi's Shuo Lin Shang (DCP 'Q102')
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷五 貴德 Chapter 5: Valuing Virtue Garden of Stories 說苑 — count: 1
- 說林上第二十二 Chapter 22: Collections of Persuasions I Han Feizi 韓非子 — count: 1
- 卷十四 魏書十四 程郭董劉蔣劉傳 Volume 14: Book of Wei 14 - Biographies of Cheng, Dong, Guo, Liu, Jiang, and Liu Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 1
- 卷二十二 魏一 Chapter 22: Wei I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 1