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Confucius - The Doctrine, Of The Mean On Truth - (Found June 29, 2008 )

He who intuitively apprehends truth is one who, without effort, hits what is right, and without thinking understands what he wants to know; whose Life is easily and naturally in harmony with the moral law.
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Proverbs And Maxims - (Found June 29, 2008 )

FELLING a tree to catch the blackbird. Asking a blind man the road.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/chinese-wisdom-19.shtml

Pan Chin Yu - 18 B.C. - (Found June 29, 2008 )

OF fresh, new silk, all snowy white, And round as harvest moon, A pledge of purity and love, A small but welcome boon.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/chinese-wisdom-18.shtml

PO CHU-I - A.D. 772 - (Found June 29, 2008 )

I am Like unto the sere chrysanthemum. That is shorn by the frost-blade and, torn from its roots, Whirled away on the wind.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/chinese-wisdom-17.shtml

Ts'En-Ts'An - A.D. 750 - (Found June 29, 2008 )

NIGHT is at hand; the night winds fret afar, The north winds moan. The waterfowl are gone To cover o'er the sand dunes;
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/chinese-wisdom-16.shtml

Ch'Ang Ch'Ien - A.D. 720 - (Found June 29, 2008 )

I SAT upon the mountainside and watched. A tiny barque that skimmed across the lake, Drifting, like human destiny upon...
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The Poetry Of The Chinese - (Found June 29, 2008 )

Like a water-wheel awhirl, Like the rolling of a pearl; Yet these but illustrate, To fools, the final state.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/chinese-wisdom-14.shtml

Tse-Chen - 550 B.C. - (Found June 29, 2008 )

THAT SUBLIMITY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT in which man is superior to beasts and birds is his mental faculties.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/chinese-wisdom-13.shtml

Yu Tse - 1250 B.C. - (Found June 29, 2008 )

Fame is the follower of reality. Now, however, as people pursue fame with such frenzy, does it not really come of itself if it is disregarded At present fame means honor and regard.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/chinese-wisdom-12.shtml

Kuan-Yi-Wu - 500 B.C. - (Found June 29, 2008 )

ALLOW the ear to hear what it likes, the eye to see what it likes, the mouth to say what it likes, the body to enjoy the comforts it likes to have, and the mind to do what it likes.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/chinese-wisdom-11.shtml