"Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men."

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

Proverb, Chinese on friends and friendship
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"The saving man becomes the free man."

Proverb, Chinese on freedom
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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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"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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"Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head."

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

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

Proverb, Chinese on death
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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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"The words of the world want to make sentences."

Bachelard, Gaston on words
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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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"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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"Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Proverb, Chinese on blame
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"Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes."

Proverb, Chinese on studying
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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."

Proverb, Chinese on promises
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"When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people."

Proverb, Chinese on planning
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"The tongue can paint what the eye can't see."

Proverb, Chinese on persuasion
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"To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself."

Proverb, Chinese on parents and parenting
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"If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives."

Proverb, Chinese on money   

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

Proverb, Chinese on anger
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"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on nonsense   

"Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance."

Dempsey, Jack on chance
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"Keep not your roses for my dead, cold brow the way is lonely, let me feel them now."

Smith, Arabella on flowers   

"Give help rather than advice."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on advice
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"An optimist is a man who has never had much experience."

Marquis, Don on optimism   

"A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck."

Garfield, James A. on luck   

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"Luck relies on chance, labor on character."

Cobden, Richard on luck   

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"Luck marches with those who give their very best"

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on luck
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"In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend."

Strindberg, J. August on living together   

"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."

Hoffer, Eric on living together   

"We must love one another or die."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"Well-ordered self-love is right and natural."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on love
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"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

Anouilh, Jean on love
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"Vice stirs up war, virtue fights."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on vice   

"You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on time
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"The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on opportunity   

"The idle always have a mind to do something."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on laziness   

"The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on knowledge
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