If the blind lead the blind, they will both go to the pit.
Good iron is not used for nails, nor are soldiers made of good men. A fair wind raises no storm.
A little impatience subverts great undertakings.
Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man is never satisfied.
The body may be healed, but the mind is incurable. When the tree falls the monkeys flee.
The tiger does not walk with the hind.
Trouble neglected becomes still more troublesome.
Wood is not sold in the forest, nor fish at the pool.
He who looks at the sun is dazzled, he who hears the thunder is deafened. (Not come too near the powerful.)
He desires to hide his tracks, and walks on the snow.
He seeks the ass, and lo! he sits upon him. An illiterate person is like a dry inkstone. Speak not of others, but convict yourself.
A man who has a tongue may go to Peking.
A man is not always known by his looks, nor the sea measured by a bushel ̧ A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trial. Ivory does not coine from a rat's mouth.
If a chattering bird be not placed in the mouth, vexation will not sit between the eyebrows.
Prevention is better than cure.
For the emperor to break the laws is one with the people's doing so. Doubt and distraction are on earth, the brightness of truth in heaven. Punishment can oppose a barrier to open crime, laws can not reach to secret offenses.
Wine and good dinners make abundance of friends, but in time of adver- sity not one is to be found.
Let every man sweep the snow from before his own doors, and not trouble himself about the hoarfrost on his neighbor's tiles.
Better be upright with poverty than depraved with abundance. He whose virtue exceeds his talents is the good man; he whose talents exceed his virtues is the fool.
Though a man may be utterly stupid, he is very perspicuous when repre- hending the bad actions of others; though he may be very intelligent, he is dull enough when excusing his own faults: do you only correct yourself on the same principle that you correct others, and excuse others on the same principle you excuse yourself.
In making a candle we seek for light, in reading a book we seek for reason; light to illuminate a dark chamber, reason to enlighten men's hearts
If I do not debauch other men's wives, my own will not be polluted. Better not be than be nothing.
· The egg fights with the rock;-hopeless resistance.
One thread does not make a rope; one swallow does not make a summer.
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