Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong.
The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.
Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.
Be who you are, and go the whole way.
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.