"The height of cultivation always runs to..." - Quote by Bruce Lee
The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.
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“The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.”
“I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.”
“Ships are but boards, sailors but men.”
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“How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.”
“Build up virtue, and you master all.”
“He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.”