Think about your own faults during the first half of the night, and the faults of others during the second half.
More Chinese Proverbs
- No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun.
- The more acquaintances you have, the less you know them.
- The people who talk the best are not the only ones who can tell you the most interesting things.
- A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.
- Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.
- Do not believe that you will reach your destination without leaving the shore.
- Want a thing long enough and you don’t.
- Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.
- It is easy to open a store – the hard part is keeping it open.
- Genius can be recognized by its childish simplicity.
- If you want to find out about the road ahead, then ask about it from those coming back.
- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
- Only one who can swallow an insult is a man.
- Guessing is cheap, but guessing wrong can be expensive.
- To be totally at leisure for one day is to be immortal for one day.
- It’s better to be without a book than to believe a book entirely.
- He who thinks too much about every step he takes will always stay on one leg.
- Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.
- A person of high principles is one who can watch an entire chess game without making a comment.
- If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Do not want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyways.
- Ripe fruit falls by itself – but it doesn’t fall in your mouth.
- I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
- A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.
- Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great.
- A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
- Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.