Sunday, June 30, 2019

Sima Qian


Sima Qian (c. 145-90 BCE)

"No profit comes to an army that has to fight 1,000 miles from home."
  • From a speech attributed to Han Anguo in the Records of the Grand Historian (Shi Ji, 108) by Sima Qian. Translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1993).


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