Luo Guanzhong quotes:

Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?

Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over.

It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide.

The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.

From the days of old, those who walk in the way have replaced those who deviate therefrom; those who lack virtue have fallen before those who possess it. Can one escape fate?