Shī Nàiān

News of good behavior never gets past the door, but a scandal is heard of a thousand li away.

Ecstasy begets tragedy, from misery good fortune springs.

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!

Within the bounds of the four seas, all men are brothers.