Only the educated are free.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
It's always too early to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
You never know what motivates you.
Well done is better than well said.
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.