Ma Yuan 馬援
general · Later Han China · 14 BC–AD 49
A general of the Later Han. He was still going to war past sixty, and wrote to his nephews from a campaign far in the south.
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c. AD 42 · To nephews who liked to talk of other people's faults: do not rashly imitate the gallant Du Jiliang
If you imitate Jiliang and fail, you sink into being one of the world's frivolous men. As they say: "Paint a tiger and fail, and it ends up looking like a dog."
效季良不得，陷爲天下輕薄子，所謂‘畫虎不成反類狗’"Letter of Admonition to My Nephews Yan and Dun"
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