Hong Zicheng Quote

The sun is setting and the evening clouds
are more colorful than ever. The year
is about to end and the oranges and
tangerines are all the more fragrant.
Thus noble persons in their old age
should all the more enliven their spirits
a hundredfold.

Vegetable Roots Discourse: Wisdom from Ming China on Life and Living - Caicentan by Hong Zicheng (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006), Translated by Robert Aitken with Daniel W. Y. Kwok, p. 91