The Golden Lotus Volume 2 Quotes

“When a beautiful woman takes an idea firmly into her head, even if the walls are then thousand feet high, she cannot be prevented from carrying it out. But if she rejects it, yet it will be as though a thousand mountains kept you apart”
― Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, Golden Lotus Volume 2: Jin Ping Mei

“When a beautiful woman takes an idea firmly into her head, even if the walls are then thousand feet high, she cannot be prevented from carrying it out. But if she rejects it, yet it will be as though a thousand mountains kept you apart.”
― Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, Golden Lotus Volume 2: Jin Ping Mei

“Hasta jóvenes y ricos se encuentran con la tristeza,
despiertos e inteligentes padecen a veces miseria.
Años, meses, días, horas, todo lo determinan;
es el destino y no el hombre el que al final todo fija.”
― El Erudito de las Carcajadas, Jin Ping Mei. Tomo II