The Analects of Confucius (ca. 500 BCE), translation by Annping Chin (2014) & Bits of Wisdom
The Master said, “The wise are never perplexed. The humane never suffer from vexation. The brave are never afraid.”
Tag: Chinese
*** 200th Post *** The Good Earth (1931) by Pearl S. Buck & the Great Chinese Novel
“And he remembered as one remembers a dream long past how O-lan rested from her work a little while and fed the child richly and the white rich milk ran out of her breast and spilled upon the ground. And this seemed too long past ever to have been.”
