If many years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Book of Changes and might thereby manage to avoid great mistakes. (Confucius)

If many years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Book of Changes and might thereby manage to avoid great mistakes.

Confucius

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