When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them you will suit each other very well.
—Lu Xun
Savage as a lion, timid as a rabbit, crafty as a fox.
—Lu Xun
Topics: Action
I used to think that a man was sentenced to death or imprisonment because he was guilty; now I know that he is found guilty because he is disliked.
—Lu Xun
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
—Lu Xun
Topics: Optimism, Positive Attitudes, Hope, Existence, Health
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