Zhang Zhao quotes

“What is a good man? Simply one whose life is useful to the world. And a bad man is simply one whose life is harmful to others. There are, however, those who are harmful and yet enjoy a good reputation, and who manage to profit by a show of usefulness. These are the worst of all.”
-- Zhang Zhao

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“The perfect life: to live in a world of peace in a lake district where the magistrate is good and honest, and to have an understanding wife and bright children.”
-- Zhang Zhao

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“It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.”
-- Zhang Zhao

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“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”

“Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation

“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”

“There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.”

“The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.”

“If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.”

Source : Anna Sewell (1895). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.185

“The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.”

“The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.”

“Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)