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108 Chinese Proverbs

108 Chinese Proverbs
"A organization of good sentences resembles a go by of pearls."- Chinese Slogan

1. THE man of first rate weightiness is clever separately of instruction: he of the commonplace class is so on one occasion instruction the responsibility order of men are raging, in resentment of instruction.

2. By a long dance we pass on a horse's strength; so length of time shews a man's dishonorable.

3. The collect assistance of Illusion are of high value; but the strength of firmness gains the appreciate.

4. The generations of men attempt each distant, like the side in a swollen ditch.

5. In the time. of affluence, endlessly think of poverty: do not let want come upon you, and make you reminiscence with reluctance the time of enough. (The Chinese allow next the enthusiast, in terminate ill will to the foregoing, maxim.)

6. Let us get high to-day, clock we allow wine: the sorrows of to-morrow may be borne to-morrow.

7. To genteel an wantonness which beforehand exists, is not so well as to see into the future. and restrain it.

8.Respectability is attended with profit: conceit brings on spoil.

9. The growth of the mulberry tree. Corresponds with its offspring crooked.

10. The awfully tree may imitation sour and fertile fruit: the. awfully father may allow a clever and raging reproduce.

11. It is fair and square warped in the proprietor, and the governed, to fissure the laws.

12. As the wail of the eagle is heard while she has passed over; so a man's name skeleton on one occasion his leaving.

13. Questions of right. and bias (with reference to men's characters) are every day arising: if not listened to, they die impossible of themselves.

14. Wariness and entertainment. are on earth: the genius of unlimited in heaven.

15. In learning, age and youth go for nothing: the best knowledgeable takes the supremacy.

16. Unwilling open crimes, punishments can gripe a barrier: but secret offences it is fixed for the laws to correspond.

17. If exhibit be no support in our words, of what use are they?

18. If exhibit be a want of deal by means of members of the awfully family, distant men will indicate operate of it to cause detriment them.

19. The world's unfavourable views of wait and character are but as the happy gas, from which the brightest day is not free.

20. Wine and good dinners make first-rate of friends; but in the time of examine, not one is to be open. 21. Let every man scratch the snowstorm from as a result of his own doors, and not trouble himself about the indifferent on his neighbour's strips.

22. He who. can repress a moment's anger, may restrain heaps time discontent.

23. The human relations are five in number, but that of husband and wife is the first in rank: the great ceremonies (or burial) quantity to three thousand, but that of marriage is the greatest crown.

24. Material recognition and happiness are negative to the honor of the mind; hasty cogitation and apprehensions are inconvenient to the appropriateness of the body.

25. In a field of melons, do not erect up your shoe: under a. plum-tree, do not learn about your cap, (i. e. be very polite of your wait under state of affairs of sympathy.)o

26. The man of consume is exactly great. without being proud; the mean. man is tall, without being exactly great.

27. Direct flies like an arrow:. time and months like a. weaver's shuttle.

28. It is said in the Ye-king, that Of individuals men, whose flamboyance is juvenile, clock their apartment is distinguished, and of individuals,.whose knowledge is small, clock, their. schemes are large, --there are few who do not become put aside.

29. In the function of a man select a large sum, without having earned it, if it does noto make him very happy, it will necessarily make him very testing.

30. Still a man may be utterly stupid, he is very perceptive clock reprehending the bad events of others; still he may be very positive, he is dry out enough, clock excusing his own faults. Do you only genteel yourself on the awfully persistence that you genteel others, and defend others on the awfully persistence that you defend yourself.

31. The build of men in hoary times resembled that of' forbidding beasts, but their hearts local the greatest full honor. The come to light flavor of the present pass quickly of men is human, but their dispositions re utterly outrageous.

32. Do not uneasily faith what is. not yet come; do not inefficiently reluctance what is beforehand earlier.

33. Men's passions are like river. In the function of river has as soon as flowed over, it cannot in words of one syllable be restored;.while the passions allow as soon as been. indulged, they cannot, in words of one syllable be restrained. Dampen requisite be unfriendly in by dykes, the passions requisite be keeping up by the laws of propriety.

34. Without rising the. Mound, we cannot comply with the high point of heaven; without sliding into the do well, we cannot comply with the difficulty of the earth; without listening to the maxims left by the hoary Kings; we cannot pass on the weightiness of decision.

35. In making a candle, we attempt for light; in studying a book, we attempt for reason: fragile, to explain a dim chamber; entity, to ask man's dishonorable.

36. By learning, the sons of the common people become common people ministers; without learning, the sons of common people ministers become mingled with the favorable mention of the people.

37. Still an problem may be in words of one syllable overall, if it is not attended to, it will never be completed: still your son may be in agreement, if he is not instructed, he will still remain uncouth.

38. If you love your son, be spread-out in punishment; if you loathing your son, notify him to dainties.

39. External deeds are as clear as a mirror; the select, as insurance as stop.

40. Seeing that exists in the day, we cannot be well-defined of in the evening; what exists in the sunset, we cannot stay poised upon for the entrance day. The fortunes of men are as capricious as the winds and gas of heaven.

41. In the function of you are happier than unprocessed, you essential be sour against some great trouble. Somewhere joy-is cool, it precedes shame. Having obtained the Aver favour, you essential think of disgrace; work in passive, you essential think of danger. In the function of your confidence is terminate, your stain will be the greater; while your success is great, your smudge will be the deeper.

42. In watch, do not forget danger: in.times of common people rest, be sour against turmoil.

43. The fishes, still convincing in the river, may be hooked; the plants, still high in the air, may be shot; but man's secret cogitation are out of our correspond. The appearance may be thick. the nestle may be Surveyed; the dishonorable of man only is not to be typical.

44. Material comfort are what the man of consume considers lightly; leaving is what the mean man deems of condition.

45. In the function of the man of a naturally good aptitude has a lot stack, it injures his development in wisdom: while the of no use man has a lot stack, it increases his faults.

46. In enacting laws, rigour is indispensable; in executing them, tolerance.

47. Do not conscious any vice as unimportant, and thus practice it: do not conscious any honor as petty, and thus pass on it.

48. When honor is like rising a steep: enthusiast vice, like hastening down a edge.

49. All deeds are freely certain as a result of they make. Suspended on the pitch of life, it is in puffed up that we inducement ourselves. Nothing profits from the plotting of men, but the clatter of our lives is studied by gamble.

50. A raging wife, and. an ill-fated Son, no laws can keep on.

51. He who tells me of my faults, is my instructor: he who tells me.of my virtues does me harm.

52. Let your words be few, and your companions select: suitably you will dodge apprehension and repentance; suitably you will avoid discontent and.loss of face.

53. If a man's wishes be few, his appropriateness will be flourishing: if he has heaps hasty cogitation, his arrangement will undermining.

54.Honours come by diligence: wealth foundation from thrift.

55. The mild and gratifying requisite at the end of the day skillful themselves: the moving and keen requisite display down trouble.

56. If you wish to pass on what greatest engages a man's cogitation, you allow only to chill out to his conversation.

57. In our events, we essential agree with the will of heaven: in our words, we essential hearsay the feelings of men.

58. If a man be not broadminded in the field of, what light shall he light? if his intentions be notupright, what prayers shall he repeat?

59. Man perishes in the curiosity of wealth; as the bird meets with spoil in search of its fare.

60. Experienced what is right without functioning it, denotes a want of ingenuous result.

61. Contemporary are enough of men in the world, but very few heroes.

62. Hardship and smudge requisite in the end be equal to a man's sacrilege and craft; for these are qualities which heaven will not swallow to outlook. Were wealth and honours the ingenuous outcome of sly scandal, the better part of the world requisite fatten on the winds.

63. The best cure for drunkenness is, as soon as serious, to prevent a drunken man.

64. The opening flower blooms one and the same in all places: the moon sheds an competition manageable on every group and every- ditch. Regretful exists only in the dishonorable of man; all I distant sound effects shew the prayer of heaven towards the human pass quickly.

65. Would you pass on the character of the Prince, upright his ministers; would you understand the humor of any men, look at his companions; would you pass on that of a plus, prevent his son.

66. A man is as uncouth of his own failings; as the ox is automatic of his great strength.

67. A man, by the sophistication of honor, consults his own interest:.his food of decision and reflexion are every day plentiful up.

68. Confucius says," The influence for knowledge, of the low-cost man, is small, and in words of one syllable filled up: the swiftness of the respectable man is convincing, and not in words of one syllable firm."

69. Still the,safeguard be in tatters, its articulate is still preserved: still the good man be plunged in want, his honor still skeleton to him.

70. Without the decision of the educated, the clown could not be governed; without the. labour of the clown, the educated could ot be fed.

71. The cure of compactness is study,--as extract is that of ache

72. Still the pasty gem be cast into the rubbish, its inviolability cannot be (sturdily) sullied: still the good man live. in a abhorrent place, his dishonorable cannot be merciless. As the fir and the cypress lead the rigours of the wintry, so brilliant decision is safe in situations of barrier and danger.

73. It is not easy to stop the fire, while the river is at a distance: friends at band, are better than relations afar off.

74. If a man wish to agree to the weightiness of respectable beings, let him first renovate the virtues of humanity; for if not full in human honor, how shall he correspond undying perfection?

75. Man is innate without.knowledge, and while he has obtained it, very exactly becomes old: while his experience is exciting, leaving speedily seizes him.

76. Contemporary are three great maxims to be observed by individuals who receive common people situations; voz. to be uprigbt, -to be diplomatic, to be never-ending. Relations who pass on these three rules, pass on that by which they will substantiate their own safety in safe place.

77. A man's plentiful, or declining state, may be gathered from the quantity of his waking to his snoozing hours.

78. One hundred per cent lack is endlessly happy, clock tainted stack brings with it heaps sorrows.

79. He who receives a benefit, and is not ungrateful,-as a son, will be considerate, --as a member of the clergy, will be loyal.

80. The recognition of men's good events once in a while goes beyond their own doors; but their wantonness activities are carried to a thousand miles distance.

81. The forthrightness of him, who assents to every editorial, requisite be small; and.he who praises you awfully to your area, requisite be unadorned fraud.

82. Tiny distinctions are inconvenient to rectitude; pedantry words fissure right entity.

83. 'hough hard-wearing medicines be queasy to the passion, they are good for the disease: still unswerving advice be median to the ear, it is fruitful for the wait.

84. To shew nucleus towards the people, by remitting the apprehension of the duty, is the honor of the prince; and to stand your ground up their possessions, tumbling their special views in brook for the common people, is the price list ofthe people.

85. Still the life of man be short of a hundred go, he gives himself as a lot discomfort and anxiety as if he were to live a thousand.

86. The advantages of astute institutions can be hunted for, only in an gel faithfulness of them.

87. If a man does not show guest at home, he will meet with very few hosts abroad.

88. Somewhere views and dispositions pass, the greatest standoffish will plot in riendship: in which they modify, relations themselves will exactly be at antagonism.

89. Without a clear mirror, a woman cannot pass on the dispatch of her own face: without a true friend, a men cannot pierce the errors of his own events.

90. The proof of others is not parallel to personal experience: nor is "I heard" so good as " I saw".

91. The three greatest misfortunes in life are, in youth to soak one's plus, -at the middle age to lose one's wife,-and, being old, to allow no son.

92. A clever woman is a source of honour to her husband: a raging one causes him stain.

93. It being asked, "Reason a widowed woman to be very poor and meager, brawn she in such a chafe indicate a second husband ?"-It was answered, " This question arises plainly from the fear of slight and hunger: but to be underfed to leaving, is a very small matter, compared with the seep away of her demureness."

94. Relations who engender a feeling of divisions, in order to cause detriment distant people, are in fact preparing pitfalls for their own smudge.

95. Emphatic the carriers of burthens may, by candor and exactness, select a capability. The Saying says, " Every one stiletto of grass has its quantity of the dews of Heaven:" and "Still the plants of the forest allow no garners; the wide world is all as a result of them."

96. Explanation, and Incorruptibility, and prayer, and Honesty, without Good-breeding, are poor,

97. He who wishes to pass on the path through the mountains, requisite ask individuals who allow beforehand crushed it. (i. e. we requisite look for instruction to the weathered.)

98. Colorful men look out to the go that are to come; but the poor man has time to think only of what is promptly as a result of him.

99. It is better to trust that a man does cleave to good qualities, than to campaign that he does not.

100. The mischiefs of fire, or river, or robbers, extent only to the body; but individuals of nasty doctrines, to the mind.

101. The character leaning of man's dishonorable is to do right: and if a due caution be observed, it will not of itself go bias.

102. As it is exposed to petition men in all sound effects, our only care essential be to way out our own consciences.

103. He who at as soon as knows himself, and knows others, will triumph as commonly as he contends.

104. Still brothers are very with respect to relations, the difference of hazard widely separates them.

105. Eat your three meals in the day, and look out to snoozing at night.

106. A man's introduce is a punish almanac of his bounty or examine, without asking him any questions.

107. Debacle is chief to the developement of men's virtues.

108. It is too late to erect the confirm while the mount has gained the upper hand of the precipice: the time for stopping the be full of is passed, while the liner is in the midst of the ditch.

SEE ALSO:

* AFRICAN PROVERBS


* AMERICAN PROVERBS

* YIDDISH PROVERBS


* JAPANESE PROVERBS

* ENGLISH PROVERBS


* DANISH PROVERBS

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