“He who runs after two hares will catch neither.”

Reality is never as good as your imagination.

Dumplings rather than flowers.

Even monkeys fall from trees.

Gold coins to a cat.

If you understand everything you must be misinformed.

Don’t offer things to people who are incapable of appreciating them.

One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.

You reap what you sow.

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.

You can’t do anything without risking something.

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.

Beginning is easy, continuing is hard.

The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.

Boasting begins where wisdom stops.

It is the same life whether we spend it crying or laughing.