Lidik

“Now, what is the quality to look out for as a warrant for the stability and permanence of friendship? It is loyalty. Nothing that lacks this can be stable. We should also in making our selection look out for simplicity, a social disposition, and a sympathetic nature, moved by what moves us. These all contribute to maintain loyalty. You can never trust a character which is intricate and tortuous. Nor, indeed, is it possible for one to be trustworthy and firm who is unsympathetic by nature and unmoved by what affects ourselves. We may add, that he must neither take pleasure in bringing accusations against us himself, nor believe them when they are brought. All these contribute to form that constancy which I have been endeavouring to describe. And the result is, what I started by saying, that friendship is only possible between good men.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Treatises on Friendship and Old Age

“It was the rare girl who could resist that line, especially if she wasn’t all that hot to begin with. Blushes, giggles. All we needed to say then was “I’m out of your league, but what the hell,” and ten out of ten girls would spring out of their chairs and follow you to a secluded corner to do whatever you wanted.”
― Wang Shuo, Playing for Thrills

“why do we waste ourselves at twenty
scrambling for positions
just so we can work for someone else?”
― Li Ho, Five T'Ang Poets

“I had felt the strange happiness countless times. When a shovel met my hand, the damp of a hemp bag soaked my shoulder or rice weighed down my back, I entered a mindless oblivion, as if I had put on magic shoes and could jump out into the abyss, could even jump into death.”
― Zhang Xianliang, Half of Man Is Woman