Chinese

A wise man makes his own decisions, but an ignorant man mindlessly follows the crowd.
A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood
If you want to avoid being cheated, ask for prices at three different stores.
He who cheats the earth will be cheated by the earth.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
A book holds a house of gold.
Do everything at the right time, and one day will seem like three.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than its fill from a river.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.
It is easy to open a store – the hard part is keeping it open.
Only one who can swallow an insult is a man.
He who thinks too much about every step he takes will always stay on one leg.
Do not want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyways.
Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great.
Two good talkers are not worth one good listener.
To know another is not to know the person’s face, but to know the person’s heart.
Men trip not on mountains they trip on molehills.
Listening well is as powerful as talking well, and is also as essential to true conversation.
Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred others away.
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.
A hundred no’s are less agonizing than one insincere yes.
Behave toward everyone as if receiving a guest.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.
Genius can be recognized by its childish simplicity.
Guessing is cheap, but guessing wrong can be expensive.
Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.
Ripe fruit falls by itself – but it doesn’t fall in your mouth.
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones, and little ones into none at all.
A little impatience will spoil great plans.
It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.
A clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Talk does not cook rice.
One beam, no matter how big, cannot support an entire house on its own.
Want a thing long enough and you don’t.
A needle is not sharp at both ends.
Learning is a weightless treasure you can always carry easily.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun.
Do not believe that you will reach your destination without leaving the shore.
If you want to find out about the road ahead, then ask about it from those coming back.
To be totally at leisure for one day is to be immortal for one day.
A person of high principles is one who can watch an entire chess game without making a comment.
I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
A smile will gain you ten more years of life.
Think about your own faults during the first half of the night, and the faults of others during the second half.
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
All things change, and we change with them.
A man without a smiling face must not open shop.
A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things.
Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech.
Tenacity and adversity are old foes.
The person who is his own master cannot tolerate another boss.
The more acquaintances you have, the less you know them.
Want a thing long enough and you don’t.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
It’s better to be without a book than to believe a book entirely.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.
If you want your children to have a peaceful life, let them suffer a little hunger and a little coldness.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.
There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet.
An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.
Patience is a bitter plant, but its fruit is sweet.
If you bow at all, bow low.
Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.
Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
In a group of many words, there is bound to be a mistake somewhere in them.
Distant water does not put out a nearby fire.
The people who talk the best are not the only ones who can tell you the most interesting things.
Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.