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“Therefore, it is believed that the ancestors return after a lapse of tiem as if to a general and spiritual reservoir from which they…

— Hellmut and Richard Wilhelm

“They’re wise in China. There the first of a dynasty’s always a peasant or the son of a peasant, and the throne’s always taken…

— James Clavell

“Look, doctor, China, the country without religion. The Chinese have no religious ideas, only a kind of philosophy. In the Middle Kingdom no grain…

— Leo Perutz

“Even if Chinese own the entire world; still they will be servants.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Ganjin of Sho ¯daiji Temple endured seventy adversities in his attempts to come to Japan from China. He is said to have lost his…

— Bashō Matsuo

“The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful.”

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“To be a good ruler one must be the best of servants.”

— J. Aaron Gruben

“A ruler who failed to manage China’s waters didn’t just risk social decay. He exposed himself to the charge that heaven itself had lost…

— Philip Ball

“It’s more powerful than a regular dragon,” said Master Kung.”

— Alex Anderson

“Thus it was that when faith (in the Tao) was deficient (in the rulers) a want of faith in them ensued (in the people).”

— Lao Tzu

“My duty is to serve and protect the twelfth prince of Xing.-Lan Fan to Ling”

— Hiromu Arakawa

“Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes little.”

— Kenneth Minogue