Luo Guanzhong quotes

“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.”
-- Luo Guanzhong

Source : "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Book by Luo Guanzhong (Chapter 1, opening lines), 14th century.

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“It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide.”
-- Luo Guanzhong

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“Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over.”
-- Luo Guanzhong

Source : Luo Guanzhong (2016). “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, p.244, XinXii

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“I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

“Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”

Source : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.

“Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

“It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.”

“I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”

“Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.21

“There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.82, U of Nebraska Press

“When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts.”

“Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.”

Source : 1832 On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures.

“Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.”