When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.
The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.
Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Prince Asaka had joined the army only about ten days before its entry into Nanking and in view of the short time he was connected with this army I do not think he can be held responsible. I would say that the Division Commanders are the responsible parties.
The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as an independent force is covered by the technological bluff, which refers it to the agenda of the future and disguises the deficiencies of the present.
In the one branch he most needed
There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.