Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
"The dead are as real as the living, but in a different way."
言多必失,要谨言慎行,不要盲目争强好胜。  
The dead outnumber the living, and their legacy lives on within us.