Luo Guanzhong · 2339 pages
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“Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over.”
“You may return and tell Sun Quan to wash his neck: the executioner is coming.”
“Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?”
“The hound and hare were both so wearied that the peasant got them all.”
“From the days of old, those who walk in the way have replaced those who deviate therefrom; those who lack virtue have fallen before those who possess it. Can one escape fate?”
“He is a perfect genius, god and devil combined, the greatest marvel of the age.”
“When all dreams wane, same are loss and gain”
“Just introduce a woman, conspiracies succeed; Of soldiers, or their weapons, there really is no need.”
“Solving this issue is as easy as turning over one's hand!”
“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide.”
“I have received the command from Heaven: May my time be always long and prosperous.”
“Heaven has abandoned us. But you, the tool of his crime, will assuredly perish!" Thereupon Li Ru grew more angry, laid hands on the Empress and threw her out of the window.”
“Suddenly there appeared a general, with a small following, who cried out, “Cai Mao and Zhang Yun are two traitors. The princely Liu Bei is a most upright man and has come here to preserve his people. Why do you repulse him?” All looked at this man. He was of middle height, with a face dark brown as a ripe date. He was from Yiyang and named Wei Yan.”
“She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anoymous. It is not, after all, where you live.”
“The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.”
“Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.”
“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”
“it is said that in death, all things become clear ”
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