Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!
It’s always important to take time to study men – important men. Friends and enemies.
Horses are far worse than men for treachery...
Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.
What you do with strangers is ignore them for. No second chance, no sorry I did it, never accept an apology, but never, ever get angry with strangers.
Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don’t give way to the seven, you’re patient, then you’ll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.
A man’s fate is a man’s fate and life is but an illusion.
Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.
This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity.
Many times Blackthorne had looked over his shoulder expecting her there, but she was never there and never would be and this did not disturb him. She was with him forever, and he knew he would love her in the good times and in the tragic times, even in the winter of his life. She was always on the edge of his dreams.
Always remember, child,’ her first teacher had impressed on her, ’that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort.
Men don’t apologize to ladies. Whatever they do is correct.
You must learn to control the filth of your tongue, my son. It will send you to hell.
I prefer the mist that surrounds me. Yes, I don’t like a lot of what I see nowadays.
In war and in peace, a good enemy can be more valuable than a good ally.
If you smile when you lose, then you win in life.
He took a deep breath of air. Once again he caught a strangeness on the wind, neither pleasant nor unpleasant, neither odor nor perfume – just strange, and curiously exciting. “Superintendent, what’s that smell? Casey noticed it too, the moment Sven opened the door.” Armstrong hesitated. Then he smiled. “That’s Hong Kong’s very own, Mr. Bartlett. It’s money.
Without privacy, civilized life could not exist.
Godrot opium, he thought. But he knew that his life was inexorably tied to opium – and that without it neither The Noble House nor the British Empire could exist.
It’s only Christian to be chivalrous to your enemies.