How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility. Book V
That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within. Book IV
"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved." The Analects of Confucius
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. Ulysses
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