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Once Confucius was walking on...

Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.

Lin Yutang 155 quotes

The Chinese do not draw any d...

The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.

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What is patriotism but love o...

What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini... in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind.

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Instead of holding on to the ...

Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.

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I do not think that any civil...

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

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Besides the noble art of gett...

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

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If you can spend a perfectly ...

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

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A good traveller is one who d...

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

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No one realizes how beautiful...

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

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Where there are too many poli...

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

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Hope is like a road in the co...

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

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Today we are afraid of simple...

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

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The busy man is never wise an...

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

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Love is an immortal wound tha...

Love is an immortal wound that cannot be closed up. A person loses something, a part of her soul, when she loves someone. And she goes about looking for that lost part of her soul, for she knows that otherwise she is incomplete and cannot be at rest. It is only when she is with the person she loves that she becomes complete again in herself; but the moment he leaves, she loses that part which he has taken with him and knows no rest till she has found him once more.

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Only he who handles his ideas...

Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

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There is so much to love and ...

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

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We all have obligations and d...

We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

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The most bewildering thing ab...

The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.

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There is no proper time and p...

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

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To glorify the past and paint...

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

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