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Without coincidence there would be no story.

A close neighbor means more than a distant relative.

The winds and clouds in the sky are unfathomable. A man's luck changes in an instant.

[Song Jiang] helped anyone, high or low, who sought his aid. [...] He was always making things easy for people, solving their difficulties, settling differences, saving lives. He provided the indigent with funds for coffins and medicines, gave charity to the poor, assisted in emergencies, helped in cases of hardship. And so he was famed throughout the provinces of Shandong and Hebei, and was known to all as the Timely Rain, for like the rain from the heavens he brought succor to every living thing.

Calamity and happiness have no volition. Man brings them on himself. Go in a flaxen cape to put out a fire and you'll be consumed by flames.

Friends don't last forever!

Money to an official is like blood to a fly.

The importance of human life is vast as the sky!

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

Condition of man: inconstancy, weariness, unrest.