Proverb, Chinese quotes
Sayings of Chinese OriginDon t open a shop unless you like to smile.
Proverb, Chinese
Business
Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom.
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Doubt
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
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Enemies
The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;
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Doctors
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
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Certainty
I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.
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Dreams
One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.
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Complaints and Complaining
Ceremony is the smoke of friendship.
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Ceremony
Life is a dream walking death is a going home.
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Death and Dying
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
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Control
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
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Decisions
Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.
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Caution
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
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Conscience
If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
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Direction
Do not employ handsome servants.
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Hiring
When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.
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Future
With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.
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Friends and Friendship
Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.
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Growth
Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.
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Fame
Everyone pushes a falling fence.
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Failure
Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.
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Experience
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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Friends and Friendship
Climb mountains to see lowlands.
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Growth
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.
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Happiness
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
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Happiness
If you suspect a man, don t employ him, and if you employ him, don t suspect him.
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Hiring
The saving man becomes the free man.
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Freedom
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
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Fools and Foolishness
If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.
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Fools and Foolishness
A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
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Fortune
Your friend has a friend; don t tell him.
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Gossip
Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
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Habit
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
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Failure
Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.
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Giving
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
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Heart
All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.
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Family
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
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Family
In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.
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Family
Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.
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Family
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
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Home
Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.
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Insanity
One joy scatters a hundred grieves.
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Joy
The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.
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Memory
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
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Learning
One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.
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Humor
When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.
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Knowledge
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
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Names
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.
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Prosperity
Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
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Patience
When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries.
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Worry
The tongue can paint what the eye can t see.
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Persuasion
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
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Words
One step at a time is good walking.
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Planning
When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.
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Planning
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone s letter.
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Promises
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
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Pleasure
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.
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Money
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
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Parents and Parenting
Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
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Progress
Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
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Simplicity
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
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Speakers and Speaking
A maker of idols is never an idolater.
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Religion
Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men s clothes.
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Studying
It is later than you think.
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Time and Time Management
An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.
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Time and Time Management
What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.
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Secrets
Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.
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Respectability
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.
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Thoughts and Thinking
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
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Children
Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.
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Discontent
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
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Critics and Criticism
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
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Ask
The journey is the reward.
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Achievement
There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.
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Goodness
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
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Blame
If your strength is small, don t carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don t give advice.
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Advice
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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Age and Aging
Biggest profits mean gravest risks.
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Danger
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
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Anger
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend s forehead.
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Critics and Criticism
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
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Character
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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Action
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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Beginning
Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.
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Action
Talk doesn t cook rice.
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Action
I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
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Action
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
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Action
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
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Adversity
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
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Faults
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
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Character
To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.
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Action
With virtue you can t be entirely poor; without virtue you can t really be rich.
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Virtue
The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.
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Victory
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
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Will and Will Power
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month s study of books.
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Wisdom
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
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Wisdom
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
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Wisdom
A man grows most tired while standing still.
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Work