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If there is a strong general, there will be no weak soldiers.
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If there is a wave there must be a wind.
Source: (Chinese)
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If there is beauty in character, there will be harmony in the
home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in
the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace
in the world.
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If what we see is doubtful, how can we believe what is spoken
behind the back.
Source: (Chinese)
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If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Source: (Chinese)
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If you always give, you will always have.
Source: (Chinese)
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If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a
hundred days of sorrow.
Source: (Chinese)
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If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for
a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime,
educate people.
Source: (Chinese)
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If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is
crooked.
Source: (Chinese)
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If you beat spice it will smell the sweeter.
Source: (Chinese)
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If you bow at all, bow low.
Source: (Chinese)
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If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
Source: (Chinese)
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If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain.
Source: (Chinese)
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If you don't speculate, you can't accumulate.
Source: (Chinese)
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If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it
through.
Source: (Chinese)
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If you have never done anything evil, you should not be worrying
about devils knocking at your door.
Source: (Chinese)
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If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily.
Source: (Chinese)
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If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules
of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Source: (Chinese)
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If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Source: (Chinese)
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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.
Source: (Chinese)
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If you share a man's wealth, try to lessen his misfortune.
Source: (Chinese)
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If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him,
don't suspect him.
Source: (Chinese)
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If you want an audience, start a fight.
Source: (Chinese)
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Illness comes in by mouth; ills come out by it.
Source: (Chinese)
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In every family's cooking pot is one black spot.
Source: (Chinese)
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In his decision the judge with seven reasons gives only one in
court.
Source: (Chinese)
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In reviling, it is not necessary to prepare a preliminary draft.
Source: (Chinese)
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In shallow holes moles make fools of dragons.
Source: (Chinese)
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In the broken nest there are no whole eggs.
Source: (Chinese)
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In the coldest flint there is hot fire.
Source: (Chinese)
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In the midst of great joy do not promise to give a man anything;
in the midst of great anger do not answer a man's letter.
Source: (Chinese)
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In the presence of princes the cleverest jester is mute.
Source: (Chinese)
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Insects do not nest in a busy door-hinge.
Source: (Chinese)
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It is better to be entirely without a book than to believe it
entirely.
Source: (Chinese)
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It is easier to know how to do than it is to do.
Source: (Chinese)
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It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich
without boasting.
Source: (Chinese)
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if
the result is twins.
Source: (Chinese)
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It is the beautiful bird which gets caged.
Source: (Chinese)
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It takes little effort to watch a man carry a load.
Source: (Chinese)
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It's as difficult to be rich without bragging as it is to be poor
without complaining.
Source: (Chinese)
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It's your own lantern; don't poke holes in the paper.
Source: (Chinese)
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Jade and men, both are sharpened by bitter tools.
Source: (Chinese)
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Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.
Source: (Chinese)
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Judge not the horse by his saddle.
Source: (Chinese)
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Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men
known by their enemies.
Source: (Chinese)
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Just scales and full measure injure no man.
Source: (Chinese)
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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Source: (Chinese)
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Keep your chin up.
Source: (Chinese)
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Kill a chicken before a monkey.
Source: (Chinese)
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Kill one to warn a hundred.
Source: (Chinese)
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