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Behind every able man, there are always other able men.
Topic: Ability
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If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
Topic: Advice
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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Topic: Affliction
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Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.
Topic: Age
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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.
Topic: Age
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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Topic: Anger
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If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
Topic: Burden
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Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.
Topic: Caution
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He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
Topic: Conscience
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He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
Topic: Control
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You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
Topic: Control
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Topic: Darkness
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Topic: Decision
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A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
Topic: Diligence
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Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.
Topic: Discontent
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Topic: Doubt
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To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.
Topic: Dreams
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Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.
Topic: Earth
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Topic: Education
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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.
Topic: Family
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.
Topic: Family
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A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.
Topic: Fault
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A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.
Topic: Flaws
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A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
Topic: Fortune
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To attract good fortune, spend a new penny 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.
Topic: Friendship
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Topic: Gambling
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The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.
Topic: Growth
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Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
Topic: Habits
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
Topic: Harm
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If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come. -Chinese proverb.
Topic: Heart-quotes
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Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.
Topic: Heaven
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Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.
Topic: Hell
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Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor.
Topic: Inspirational
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He who treads softly goes far.
Topic: Inspirational
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A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study of
books.
Topic: Inspirational
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The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.
Topic: Inspirational
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If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are
headed.
Topic: Inspirational
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Topic: Inspirational
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Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly
regret what is already past.
Topic: Inspirational
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If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant
trees. If you plan for 100 years, educate mankind.
Topic: Inspirational
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Outside noisy, inside empty.
Topic: Inspirational
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The journey is the reward.
Topic: Journey
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone 's letter.
Topic: Joy
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Topic: Joy
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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Topic: Knowledge
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Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.
Topic: Learning
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Topic: Learning
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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.
Topic: Life
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Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.
Topic: Medicine
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The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Topic: Memory
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