Quotes by Proverb, Chinese

"Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome."

Proverb, Chinese on insanity
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"One joy scatters a hundred grieves."

Proverb, Chinese on joy   

"When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding."

Proverb, Chinese on knowledge   

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."

Proverb, Chinese on learning
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"The journey is the reward."

Proverb, Chinese on achievement
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"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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"The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory."

Proverb, Chinese on memory   

"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   

"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names."

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

Proverb, Chinese on parents and parenting
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"Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown."

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

Proverb, Chinese on persuasion
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"One step at a time is good walking."

Proverb, Chinese on planning
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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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"Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden."

Proverb, Chinese on pleasure
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"Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time."

Proverb, Chinese on ask
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"Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still."

Proverb, Chinese on progress
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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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"If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people."

Proverb, Chinese on prosperity   

"A maker of idols is never an idolater."

Proverb, Chinese on religion   

"Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life."

Proverb, Chinese on respectability
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"What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away."

Proverb, Chinese on secrets   

"Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down."

Proverb, Chinese on simplicity
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"To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing."

Proverb, Chinese on speakers and speaking   

"Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes."

Proverb, Chinese on studying
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"Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Proverb, Chinese on blame
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"Don't open a shop unless you like to smile."

Proverb, Chinese on business   

"Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best."

Proverb, Chinese on caution
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"Ceremony is the smoke of friendship."

Proverb, Chinese on ceremony   

"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous."

Proverb, Chinese on certainty
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"If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow."

Proverb, Chinese on character
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"Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking."

Proverb, Chinese on character
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"Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep."

Proverb, Chinese on thoughts and thinking   

"It is later than you think."

Proverb, Chinese on time   

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"An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold."

Proverb, Chinese on time
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"The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow."

Proverb, Chinese on victory
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"With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich."

Proverb, Chinese on virtue
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"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes."

Proverb, Chinese on power
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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books."

Proverb, Chinese on wisdom
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"Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men."

Proverb, Chinese on wisdom
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