It's more mysterious, more profound, more subtle. "It has been said that Laozi may be relatively popular abroad because it is shorter than the other Chinese classics, and therefore easier to translate. To this, however, Schwabe responds," Then why are there so few translations of The Great Learning and The Doctrine of the Mean? Those Confucian classics are even shorter than Laozi. "
至於有人認為老子短而容易翻譯，因此相對的受「異國人士」歡迎，「那我要反問，果真如此，大學、中庸更短，為何翻譯本很少？」