Chinese Proverbs (1813 Proverbs)
- O man, you who do not live a hundred years, why fret a thousand minutes?
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- Never has a man more need of his intelligence than when a fool asks him a question.
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- Men fated to be happy need not haste.
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- Make sure you leave some fat for the other side.
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- Learning is weightless, treasure you can always carry easily.
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- Just scales and full measure injure no man.
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- It is the beautiful bird which gets caged.
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- It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
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- In his decision the judge with seven reasons gives only one in court.
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- If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
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- If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
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- If there is a strong general, there will be no weak soldiers.
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- If a string has one end, then it has another end.
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- He who trips and falls should not blame his foot.
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- He who is thirsty dreams that he is drinking.
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- He who covers up his mistakes intends to make some more.
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- He painted a tiger, but it turned out a dog.
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- Great cry and little wool, as the fellow said when he sheared his hogs.
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- The torment of envy is like a grain of sand in the eye.
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- The pitcher doth not go so often to the well, but it comes home broken at last.
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- The most highly praised woman is the one about whom no one speaks.
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- The longer the night lasts, the more our dreams will be.
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- The guest who outstays his fellow guests loses his overcoat.
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- The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
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- The conversation of the wise concerns ideas; that of the intelligent is about ideas; the common folk talk about food.
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- Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
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- So long as a man is angry he cannot be in the right.
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- Riches add to the house, virtues to the man.
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- Pick your inn before the dark; get on your road before the dawn.
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- Only one who can swallow an insult is a man.
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- One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.
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- Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
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- Never eat in a restaurant where the chef is thin.
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- Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.
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- Make happy those who are near and those who are far will come.
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- Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.
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- Just because men do not like the cold, Heaven will not stop the winter.
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- It is only good when the old and the young respect each other.
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- If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
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- In every family's cooking pot is one black spot.
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- If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it.
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- If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed.
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- If there are many buyers in the market, the merchant doesn't wash his turnips.
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- If a son is uneducated, his father is to blame.
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- He who travels a lot becomes wise; he who is wise stays home.
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- He who is sure of his victory will not start a war.
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- He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
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- He hath lived ill that knows not how to die well.
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- Great business is good; to sit and sip this glass is better.
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- To have saved one human life is worth more than to build a pagoda with seven stories.
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- To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
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- There is no room for two dragons in one pond.
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- The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
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- To have beautiful servant girls is a threat to good marriages.
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- Three times an early rise makes a whole day.
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- There is no economy in going to bed early to save candles if the result is twins.
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- The woman who deceives her husband makes her lover swear never to be unfaithful to her.
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- To go beyond is as bad as to fall short.
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- Three glasses of wine end a hundred quarrels.
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- There is no better sale than when you give a true friend what he needs.
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- The wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool does from his friends.
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- To serve a prince is like sleeping with a tiger.
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- To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.
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- Though you live near a forest, do not waste firewood.
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- There is gossip every day, but if no one listens anymore the gossip will die.
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- The wise man forgets insults as the ungrateful forget benefits.
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- To pretend to satisfy one's desires with worldly goods is like using straw to put out a fire.
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- To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.
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- Though the emperor be rich, he cannot buy one extra year.
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- There is a time to fish and a time to dry the nets.
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- To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing stones on one fallen into a well.
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- To find out about the road ahead, ask those coming back.
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- Though talking face to face, their hearts are a thousand miles apart.
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- There belongs more than whistling to going to plough.
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- To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art.
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- To feed the ambition in your heart is like carrying a tiger under your arm.
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- Though all rivers flow into it, the sea never overflows.
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- There are two kinds of perfect person; one who is dead and the other one is not yet born.
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- To open a shop is easy -- the hard part is keeping it open.
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- To fall is not painful for those who fly low.
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