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If you want to find out about the road ahead, then ask about it from those coming back.
Chinese Proverb
Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
Chinese Proverb
It is easy to dodge a spear that comes in front of you but hard to avoid an arrow shot from behind.
Chinese Proverb
It is easy to dodge the arrow of an enemy, but difficult to avoid the spear of a friend.
Chinese Proverb
Listening well is as powerful as talking well, and is also as essential to true conversation.
Chinese Proverb
If everyone swept the pavement in front of his house, the whole street would be clean.
Chinese Proverb
If you ask for directions rudely, you might end up a long distance from your destination.
Chinese Proverb
Drunkenness does not produce faults; it discovers them.
Chinese Proverb
If you accommodate others, you will be accommodating yourself.
Chinese Proverb
Courtesy never offended anybody.
Chinese Proverb
A whitewashed crow soon shows black again.
Chinese Proverb
Rotten wood cannot be carved.
Chinese Proverb
Dripping water can eat through a stone.
Chinese Proverb
When there are no great tigers in the deep mountains, even a monkey can become king.
Chinese Proverb
When you are in a hurry, the horse holds back.
Chinese Proverb
When fate throws a dagger at you, there are only two ways to catch it: by the blade or by the handle.
Chinese Proverb
Do not believe that you will reach your destination without leaving the shore.
Chinese Proverb
Peace and tranquillity are a thousand gold pieces.
Chinese Proverb
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.
Chinese Proverb
To know and know that you know, not to know and know that you don't know, that is to know.
Chinese Proverb
The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
Chinese Proverb
There is no economy in going to bed early to save candles if the result is twins.
Chinese Proverb
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