Chinese Proverbs Quotes

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• Covet wealth, and want it; don't, and luck will grant it
• One joy shatters a hundred griefs
• Slander cannot destroy an honest man - when the flood recedes the rock is there
• He who is passionate and hasty, is generally honest; it is your cool dissembling hypocrite, of whom you should beware
• Gold is tested by fire, people by God
• If God had meant us to fly he'd have given us wings
• Everyone pushes a falling fence
• He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever
• The saving man becomes the free man.
• Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
• Better to be a dog in times of peace than a human being in times of trouble
• A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood
• The broad-minded see the truth in different religions; the narrow-minded see only the differences
• A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain returns all sounds
• The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
• You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair.
• Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
• Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring
• He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes
• A good dog does not block the road

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