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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.

A book holds a house of gold.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

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A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.

A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.

A fool judges people by the presents they give him.

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

A nation's treasure is in its scholars.

A people without faith in themselves cannot survive.

A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion.

After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed rather at not being understanding

Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.

Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.

Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.

Don't consider your reputation and you may do anything you like

Do not employ handsome servants.

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.

Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.

He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.

He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself.

He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.

I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one.

If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people

If you bow at all, bow low.

If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it.

If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation.

It is later than you think.

It is the beautiful bird which gets caged.

Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases.

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.

Men in the game are blind to what men looking on see clearly.

Men trip not on mountains, they trip on molehills.

Of all the stratagems, to know when to quit is the best.

One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
 
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.

The error of one moment becomes the sorrow of a whole life.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same

To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root. 

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
 
To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing stones on one fallen into a well.

To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.

When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy

When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much supplies us with plenty of future worries.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

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