"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."

Proverb, Chinese on Adversity
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"If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice."

Proverb, Chinese on Advice
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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."

Proverb, Chinese on Age and Aging
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"Life is a dream walking death is a going home."

Proverb, Chinese on Death and Dying
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"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."

Proverb, Chinese on Decisions
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"If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed."

Proverb, Chinese on Direction
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"Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things."

Proverb, Chinese on Discontent
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"The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;"

Proverb, Chinese on Doctors
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"Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom."

Proverb, Chinese on Doubt
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"I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one."

Proverb, Chinese on Dreams
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"The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him."

Proverb, Chinese on Enemies
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"Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald."

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"Everyone pushes a falling fence."

Proverb, Chinese on Failure
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"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure."

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"Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water."

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"All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them."

Proverb, Chinese on Family
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"Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently."

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"In a broken nest there are few whole eggs."

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"Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head."

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"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one."

Proverb, Chinese on Faults
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"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

Proverb, Chinese on Fools and Foolishness
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"If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me."

Proverb, Chinese on Fools and Foolishness
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"A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence."

Proverb, Chinese on Fortune
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"The saving man becomes the free man."

Proverb, Chinese on Freedom
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"With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough."

Proverb, Chinese on Friends and Friendship
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"A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends."

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"When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh."

Proverb, Chinese on The future
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"Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little."

Proverb, Chinese on Giving
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"There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn."

Proverb, Chinese on Goodness
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"Your friend has a friend; don't tell him."

Proverb, Chinese on Gossip
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"Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river."

Proverb, Chinese on Growth
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"Climb mountains to see lowlands."

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"Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last."

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"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."

Proverb, Chinese on Happiness
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"Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring."

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"If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come."

Proverb, Chinese on Heart
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"Do not employ handsome servants."

Proverb, Chinese on Hiring
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"If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him."

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"A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home."

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"One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool."

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