Confucius

Confucius (c. 551-479 BCE)

"You may rob the Three Armies of their commander-in-chief, but you cannot deprive the humblest peasant of his opinion."

• The Analects of Confucius (Book IX, section 25) translated by Arthur Waley (Vintage Books, 1989). 

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