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“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”
― Confucius

“Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.”
― Ancient Chinese Proverb

“To become aware of what is constant in the flux of nature and life is the first step in abstract thinking. The recognition of regularity in the courses of the heavenly bodies and in the succession of seasons first provides a basis for a systematic ordering of events, and this knowledge makes possible a calendar. ... Simultaneously with this concept, a system of relationships comes into the idea of the world. Change is not something absolute, chaotic, and kaleidoscopic; its manifestation is a relative one, something connected with fixed points and a given order.”
― Hellmut and Richard Welhelm

“Every position in life is balanced by creating a harmony between the inner self and the surrounding world.”
― Hellmut Wilhelm, Understanding the I Ching

“This time, no matter where
you want to go, this master will
accompany you.”
― M¨° Xi¨¡ng T¨®ng Xi¨´, The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong, Vol. 2

“He who knows other men is discerning;
he who knows himself is intelligent.

He who overcomes others is strong;
he who overcomes himself is mighty.

He who works hard gets wealth;
he who knows when he has enough is truly rich.

He who does not fail in the requirements of his position continues long;
he who dies yet is not forgotten has longevity.”
― Laozi

“Dumfuck
Author,
Dumbfuck
Novel!”
― Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong, Vol. 1

“The situations depicted in the Book of Changes are the primary data of life -- what happens to everybody, every day, and what is simple and easy to understand.”
― Hellmut Wilhelm Understanding the I Ching

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“Hold fast to the mountain, take root in a broken-up bluff, grow stronger after tribulations, and withstand the buffering wind from all directions.”
― Zheng Xie

“It is no accident that, of the early Jesuit scholars who were pioneers in making China's culture known in Europe, those who concerned themselves with the Book of Changes were all later declared to be insane or heretic. Indeed, to the Chinese themselves the study of the I Ching is not to be taken lightly. By an unwritten law, only those advanced in years regard themselves as ready to learn from it. Confucius is said to have been seventy years old when he first took up the Book of Changes.”
― Hellmut Wilhelm, Understanding the I Ching

“(T)he essential thing is to keep in mind all the strata that go to make up the book. Archaic wisdom from the dawn of time, detached and systematic reflections of the Confucian school in the Chou era, pithy sayings from the heart of the people, subtle thoughts of the leading minds: all these disparate elements have harmonized to create the structure of the book as we know it.”
― Hellmut and Richard Wilhelm Understanding the I Ching

“According to a Confucian view, there are four steps in social develpment, wrote Wilhem (Sr.). There are the individual, the family, the state, and mankind. The West had always emphasized the individual and the state. Individual development is extolled, and the single human being is regarded as central and as an atom of society. Over-emphasis on the function of the individual has led to deterioration of the family. Unlike Westerners, the Chinese have given greater weight to family and mankind. The consciousness of the individual is contained in the family, and since traditional China considered itself the world, Chinese considered themselves responsible for humankind rather than for the state.”
― Hellmut Wilhelm, Understanding the I Ching

“The first, clearer, type suggests the musical pattern of theme and variations. The chosen theme persists through the six stages, in various aspects. The second type is more difficult to analyze. A recurrent leitmotiv is lacking here; instead six differerent stages whose connection is usually an inner one are joined together in mosaic fashion. But on both types, the so-called judgment is the tenor which is maintained through all the changes.”
― Hellmut and Richard Wilhelm Understanding the I Ching

“Rather than act like a coward and live, it would be better to live in satisfaction and die."

~ Qu Qing Ju”
― Yue Xia Die Ying, ºÎΪÏÍÆÞ To Be a Virtuous Wife

“There are many indications that the hexagrams were the original images from which the trigrams were then later abstracted and that the configurations of double lines are derrived from a still later anaysis.”
― Hellmut and Richard Wilhelm Understanding the I Ching

“Therefore, the eight trigrams are frequently coordinated with the day, and they can of course also be correlated with the course of the year. ... A cycle of twelve hexagrams from the Book of Changes, the so-called P'i Kua is often also correlated witht he course of the year. ... These eight trigrams, then are coordinated with the times of the day and the cardinal points, and have, in addition, very interesting psychological correlations.”
― Richard and Hellmut Wilhelm Understanding the I Ching

“Therefore, it is believed that the ancestors return after a lapse of tiem as if to a general and spiritual reservoir from which they will sooner or later unite once more with human bodies and human souls as their stimuli and impulses to life. ... Such is more or less the idea of Confucianism. And the only exception is that all human beings are not viewed as equally immortal. Whoever has harmonized his nature and caused his existence to be so effective as to emanate magical powers because they can transform and act creatively, such a person will not return after death. He will not be a Kuei, but a Shen. Shen means someone divinely effective -- man as hero, who is connected with the entire cultural complex. The duration of the culture is also his duration, because his life endures in the pantheon of this culture.”
― Hellmut and Richard Wilhelm

“Time passes, day by day. The greatness of this country lies in the inexorable journey it has taken through time.

Time is like an enormous pot, into which all ugliness and beauty are thrown, all happiness and grief, all life and all death.

Cycle follows cycle, living life and dying death. Only the great River rolls on, unending.”
― Yo Yo, Ghost Tide

“If you will not let me live freely, why would I let you live in satisfaction?"

~ Qu Qing Ju”
― Yue Xia Die Ying, ºÎΪÏÍÆÞ To Be a Virtuous Wife

“If you walk the
night road too often,
sooner or later, you'll run into ghosts.”
― M¨° Xi¨¡ng T¨®ng Xi¨´, The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation Light Novel 01: Wiedergeburt

“My position at the Palace is our one opportunity. Have confidence in my destiny. Do not weep.”
― Shan Sa, Empress

“Did fate let women time-travel so she could learn the three morals and four virtues?"

~ Qu Qing Ju ”
― Yue Xia Die Ying, ºÎΪÏÍÆÞ To Be a Virtuous Wife

“The creation of the triads goes back to the seven teenth century in China. There were one hundred thirteen monks in the Shaolin monastery, Buddhist monks, Manchu invaders attacked and killed all but five of the monks. Those remaining five monks created the secret societies with the goal of overthrowing the invaders. The triads were born. But over the centuries, they changed. They dropped politics and patriotism and became criminal organizations. Much like the Italian and Russian mafias, they engage in extortion and protection rackets. To honor the ghosts of the slaughtered monks, the extortion amounts are usually a multiple of one hundred eight.”
― Michael Connelly, Nine Dragons

“That would be pointless,
So I chose to confess
for a lenient sentence.”
― M¨° Xi¨¡ng T¨®ng Xi¨´, The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong, Vol. 2

“That would be pointless,
So I chose to confess
for a lenient sentence.”
― M¨° Xi¨¡ng T¨®ng Xi¨´