“Kiss the hand which you cannot wring.”

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.

A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

Beauty Passes, wisdom remains.

Thorns and roses grow on the same tree.

An open mouth remains no hungry.

A thousand friends are too few; one enemy is one too many.

A twig is bent while it is green.

Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.

He that falls by himself never cries.

Love is like a nest of sparrows that, once destroyed, can no longer be rebuilt

A dog that intends to bite does not bear its teeth.

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

Eat and drink with your friends but do not trade with them.

Study from new books but from old teachers

The sage speaks of what he sees; the fool, of what he hears.