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When your horse in on the brink of a precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.
Chinese Proverb
When your neighbor walks through your orchard, the polite thing to do is to ignore it.
Chinese Proverb
Whenever there is profit to be made then think of honesty.
Chinese Proverb
A nation's treasure is in its scholars.
Chinese Proverb
When the lamps in the house are lit it is like the flowering of lotus on the lake.
Chinese Proverb
When buying a house, check the beams; when choosing a wife; check the mother.
Chinese Proverb
When the deal is done, discuss it no more; it is difficult to collect dispersed water.
Chinese Proverb
A teacher is someone who ploughs with his tongue to fill his little bowl with rice.
Chinese Proverb
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself according to the vessel that contains it.
Chinese Proverb
An aged steed confined to the stable still aspires after the glory of galloping a thousand miles.
Chinese Proverb
Avoid suspicion: when you're walking through your neighbor's melon patch, don't tie your shoe.
Chinese Proverb
To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.
Chinese Proverb
Before you beat the dog, find out the name of his master.
Chinese Proverb
Before you plan to improve the world, look around your own house three times.
Chinese Proverb
Begin with an error of an inch and end by being a thousand miles off the mark.
Chinese Proverb
Those who sacrifice their conscience to ambition burn a painting to obtain ashes.
Chinese Proverb
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations, can never effect a reform.
Chinese Proverb
Compromise is always a temporary achievement.
Chinese Proverb
Consider the past and you shall know the future.
Chinese Proverb
Corner a dog in a dead-end street and it will turn and bite.
Chinese Proverb
There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet.
Chinese Proverb
Do not trust a person who claims to be honest, and never trust exaggerated friendliness.
Chinese Proverb
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