• 人有不为也,而后可以有为。
    •  --孟子
  • Only one is able to do nothing, is one able to do something.

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  • 唇亡齿寒
  • Teeth won't feel cold until the lips are gone.

    • --Dao De Jing   (Chapter 64 Interpreting assistance)     Translated by Wenliang Tao,  Baltimore Press 2010


  • 早闻道，夕死可矣。     --孔子
  • Should I learn Dao in the morning, I would not regret dying in the evening.       --Confucius

    • --Dao De Jing     Translated by Wenliang Tao,  Baltimore Press 2010

  • 能攻心则反侧自消，从古知兵非好战。
  • 不审势即宽严皆误，后来治蜀要深思。        --赵藩 (成都武侯祠楹联)

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  • If one can conduct psychological operation, then the enemy and riots will vanish of themselves. Of     all ages never warlike is a war expert.
  • If one cannot size up the situation properly, both harshness and kindness will be misused. One         who nowadays governs Sichuan must ponder.       --Couplets of Chengdu Wuhou Memorial Temple

    • --The Art of War     Translated by Wenliang Tao,   Baltimore Press 2010

  • 恃武者灭，恃文者亡。       --曹操
  • Whoever only relies on force is to perish, and so is whoever only relies on civility.       --Cao Cao

    --The Art of War     Translated by Wenliang Tao,   Baltimore Press 2010


  • 奇文共欣赏，疑义相与析。      --陶渊明

  • Writing of rare beauty we read and enjoy,
        Laying our heads together to resolve a doubt.       --Tao Yuanming

    • --Selected Poems of Tao Yuanming     Translated by Fang Zhong,   Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press 1984


  • 论至德者，不和于俗；成大功者，不谋于众。       --商鞅

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