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Loved this one.
"It's no disgrace for a man, even a wise man,The Chinese have a similar saying. It's good advice to anyone, though one recognizes there is a difference between stubbornness and enlightened principle, which should not be comprised with easy solutions.
to learn many things and not to be too rigid.
You've seen trees by a raging winter torrent,
how many sway with the flood and salvage every twig,
but not the stubborn--they're ripped out, roots and all.
Bend or break."
"Wisdom is by far the greatest part of joy,We'll learn it easy or learn it hard, but wisdom comes. At what price?
and reverence toward the gods must be safeguarded.
The mighty words of the proud are paid in full
with mighty blows of fate, and at long last
those blows will teach us wisdom."