The Art of Worldly Wisdom(110)

2011-1-20 15:21| 发布者: Shurly| 查看: 759| 评论: 0

Do not wait till you are a Setting Sun. It is a maxim of the wise to leave things before things leave them. One should be able to snatch a triumph at the end, just as the sun even at its brightest often retires behind a cloud so as not to be seen sinking, and to leave in doubt whether he has sunk or not. Wisely withdraw from the chance of mishaps, lest you have to do so from the reality. Do not wait till they turn you the cold shoulder and carry you to the grave, alive in feeling but dead in esteem. Wise trainers put racerhorses to pasture before they arouse derision by falling on the course. A beauty should break her mirror early, lest she do so later with open eyes.

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