Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Sayings Of Antiquity

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity
And many deeds of the past,
In order to strengthen his character thereby.

-- I Ching (易經), also known as the Book of Changes (周易), Chinese classical text believed to have been written by Fu Xi (c. 2800 BCE), ䷙ 26 The Taming Power of the Great, translated by Richard Wilhelm, rendered into English by Cary F. Baynes (1950), Volume 19 of the Bollingen series

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