Zhuge Liang Quotes

Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.

Zhuge Liang

• People
• Cold
• Distance
• Flower
• Danger
• Honorable
• Acquaintance

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• Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.

  

  Zhuge Liang
  • People
  • Cold
  • Distance