The Test Of A Civilization

Nothing And No One Can Destroy The Chinese People. They Are Relentless Survivors. They Are The Oldest Civilized People On Earth. Their Civilization Passes Through Phases But Its Basic Characteristics Remain The Same. They Yield, They Bend To The Wind, But They Never Break.

As For Inhibitions, I've Spent A Lifetime Developing Them, And I Don't Intend To Lose Them.

We Should So Provide For Old Age That It May Have No Urgent Wants Of This World To Absorb It From Meditation On The Next. It Is Awful To See The Lean Hands Of Dotage Making A Coffer Of The Grave.

When Hope Is Taken Away From A People, Moral Degeneration Follows Swiftly Thereafter.

In Our Changing World Nothing Changes More Than Geography.