He who covets earthly riches and counts his money will receive only the laughter of posterity.
Tag: sinusta erossa
A Slow Song
If you don’t do what you can when young, you’ll rue and mourn in vain when old.
A Slow Song
A wanderer always longs for his motherland.
Dew from a Gentian Leaf
When does return a human who has died and once gone away?
⋅ Nota Bene ⋅
(Again amateurishly translated by me from a Chinese folk song. Oh, if someone recognises any of these quotes, please let me know so I can add the English version of the book in the tags.)
Wu-Mountain is High
The wanderer of remote roads only thinks of home.
⋅ Nota Bene ⋅
(I don’t know if this song exists in English—I’d assume it does somewhere—so I just translated it myself. It’s from a Chinese folk song.)