If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell.
Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.
Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
Principles have a way of yielding to power.
to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.
The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.