A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first.
Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.
you must not use wood to put out the fire.
Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
prophecies do not alter fate, only confirm it.
The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.