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The rich man plans for tomorrow, the poor man for today.
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.
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The saving man becomes the free man.
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The sheep has no choice when in the jaws of the wolf.
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The water that bears the ship is the same that engulfs it.
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The way of a slothful man is as a hedge of thorns.
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The weasel comes to say "Happy New Year!" to the chickens.
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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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The Yangtze never runs backwards; man recaptures not his youth.
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is
always the same.
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There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.
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There are two sides to every question.
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There belongs more than whistling to going to plough.
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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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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are
awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when
you are asleep.
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Those who despise money will eventually sponge on their friends.
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Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's
clothes.
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Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
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Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad.
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Though you live near a forest, do not waste firewood.
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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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To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.
Source: (Chinese)
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To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a
tree without root.
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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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To go beyond is as bad as to fall short.
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
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To listen well is as powerful a means of influence as to talk
well and is as essential to all true conversation.
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To meet an old friend in a distant country is like the delight of
rain after a long drought.
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To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art.
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To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing stones on one
fallen into a well.
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To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to
catch a fish.
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To understand your parents' love bear your own children.
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To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the
subject.
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Transgressions should never be forgiven a third time.
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Two barrels of tears will not heal a bruise.
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Two good talkers are not worth one good listener.
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Unplowed fields make hollow bellies; unread books make hollow
minds.
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Use power to curb power.
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Vicious as a tigress can be, she never eats her own cubs.
Source: (Chinese)
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Victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
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Virtue becomes a wife; beauty becomes a concubine.
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Virtue is not left to stand alone.
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Virtue never dwells alone, it always has neighbors.
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Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears
to be seen is real vice.
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Virtue: climbing a hill; vice: running down.
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Virtuous for ten years is still not enough; evil for one day is
too much already.
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Wait long, strike fast.
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Waiting for a rabbit to hit upon a tree and be killed in order to
catch it.
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Want a thing long enough, and you don't.
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Water and words are easy to pour but impossible to recover.
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