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A body acts according to physical strength.\\(Life)
A happy occasion gladdens the spirit.\\(Life)
A person leaves a reputation, as a swallow leaves its call.\\(Life)
A team of horses will struggle to chase down a spoken word.\\(Life)
As distance tests a horse's strength, time reveals a person's character.\\(Life)
Deliberately vague and deflective.\\(Life)
Everything's ready except the east wind.\\(Life)
Facts beat eloquence.\\(Life)
Food is the first priority of the people.\\(Life)
Good medicine tastes bitter.\\(Life)
Great wisdom can seem foolish.\\(Life)
Like sitting on a carpet of needles.\\(Life)
Punishing those who come before stops those who come after from doing something.\\(Life)
Repay good with good.\\(Life)
Replace weapons with jade and silk.\\(Life)
Small as it is, the sparrow has all the vital organs.\\(Life)
Soldiers don't hate deceit.\\(Life)
Ten years to cultivate wood, a hundred years to cultivate a man.\\(Life)
The player is lost; the watcher is lucid.\\(Life)
The quick-footed climb first.\\(Life)
The timber's already a boat; the rice is cooked.\\(Life)
Think thrice before you act.\\(Life)
This ground doesn't have 300 taels of silver.\\(Life)
Two benefits from one action.\\(Life)
When a mute eats dumplings, he knows how many he has eaten.\\(Life)
When adversity comes, receive it favorably.\\(Life)
While some are happy, some are anxious.\\(Life)
With truth on your side, you can go anywhere; without truth, you can't take a tiny step.\\(Life)
Without standards, no boundaries are set.\\(Life)
Birds flying in the sky as one; branches growing on the Earth as one.\\(Love)
Hold hands with you, grow old with you.\\(Love)
In a lover's eye is the foremost Beauty.\\(Love)
Long for a heart, never be apart.\\(Love)
Love at first sight.\\(Love)
Love isn't about having, it's about enjoying (what you have).\\(Love)
Love the house and its crow.\\(Love)
People in love become spouses in the end.\\(Love)
Radishes and greens, each has those who love them.\\(Love)
With love water is enough; without love, food doesn't satisfy.\\(Love)
A day's planning is done at dawn.\\(Success)
A thousand-li journey starts with a footfall.\\(Success)
Adversity yields flair.\\(Success)
All things are difficult at the start.\\(Success)
An aggrieved army is sure to win.\\(Success)
An old warhorse in the stable still longs to gallop a thousand li.\\(Success)
Don't miss opportunities: time doesn't come round again.\\(Success)
Enduring deepening pain is how man ascends.\\(Success)
Failure is the mother of success.\\(Success)
Green is from blue, and better than blue.\\(Success)
It just needs hard work to grind an iron rod into a needle.\\(Success)
It takes more than one cold day for a river to freeze a meter deep.\\(Success)
Peace replaces extreme evil.\\(Success)
Starlight shines far.\\(Success)
Suffer a moat, grow in wisdom.\\(Success)
The first to arrive is the first to succeed.\\(Success)
Watch till clouds part to see the moonlight.\\(Success)
Water drops pierce stone; rope saws cut wood.\\(Success)
When people work with one heart, they can even move Mount. Tai.\\(Success)
Wind isn't always favorable; soldiers aren't always victorious.\\(Success)
You can't get fat with one mouthful.\\(Success)
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.\\(Wisdom)
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.\\(Wisdom)
A candle lights others and consumes itself.\\(Wisdom)
A good name is better than a good face.\\(Wisdom)
A prime minister's mind should be broad enough to punt a boat.\\(Wisdom)
A smile dispels many worries.\\(Wisdom)
Blessings come in disguise.\\(Wisdom)
Disaster comes from the careless talk.\\(Wisdom)
Each has his own task, and nobody is dispensable.\\(Wisdom)
Every step makes a footprint.\\(Wisdom)
Happiness is the best cosmetic.\\(Wisdom)
If people are of one heart, even loess can become gold.\\(Wisdom)
If small holes aren't fixed, then big holes will bring hardship.\\(Wisdom)
If you don't do stupid things you won't end up in tragedy.\\(Wisdom)
Ignorance is bliss.\\(Wisdom)
It is easy to find a thousand soldiers, but hard to find a good general.\\(Wisdom)
It's better to walk thousands of miles than to read thousands of books.\\(Wisdom)
Keep the general goal in sight while tackling daily tasks.\\(Wisdom)
No man is a perfect man; no gold is sufficiently bare.\\(Wisdom)
One who stands straight doesn't fear a crooked shadow.\\(Wisdom)
Those who just want speed don't succeed.\\(Wisdom)
Timely return of a loan makes it easier to borrow a second time.\\(Wisdom)
Too many cooks spoil the broth.\\(Wisdom)
Water flows in only to flow out.\\(Wisdom)
While there are green hills, there'll be wood to burn.\\(Wisdom)
You reap what you sow.\\(Wisdom)
A gentleman's friendship is insipid as water.\\(Friendship)
An intimate friend is hard to find.\\(Friendship)
Fate brings people together from far apart.\\(Friendship)
In hardship, we see true friendship.\\(Friendship)
Listening to a lord's remarks is better than reading books for ten years.\\(Friendship)
Men of different principles don't work well together.\\(Friendship)
Numerous friends means no deep friendship.\\(Friendship)
To know a fish go to the water; to know a bird's song go to the mountains.\\(Friendship)
When entering a locality follow the local customs.\\(Friendship)
Even an upright official finds it hard to settle a family quarrel.\\(Family)
Every family has its problems.\\(Family)
Family shames must not be spread abroad.\\(Family)
Gold and silver nests can't beat one's family kennel.\\(Family)
If a family is harmonious everything will go well.\\(Family)
If you don't run the family, you don't know the value of fuel and rice.\\(Family)
The harvest moon is brightest; every festival's homesickness multiplies.\\(Family)
When children travel far, mothers worry.\\(Family)
Where there's a father, there's his son.\\(Family)
Wishing us long life, though sharing moonlight from afar.\\(Family)
A book is a pocket garden.\\(Learning)
A good book is like a good friend.\\(Learning)
A good memory can't beat a bad pen.\\(Learning)
An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but an inch of gold may not buy an inch of time.\\(Learning)
Flowers may bloom again; you're never young again.\\(Learning)
Learning without thought is deceptive; thought without learning is perilous.\\(Learning)
Live till you're old, and study till you're old.\\(Learning)
Reading requires concentration; a word may be worth a fortune.\\(Learning)
Strict teachers produce fine students.\\(Learning)
When using books, you'll regret reading few.\\(Learning)
A carp has jumped the dragon's gate.\\(Dragons)
A dragon's and a horse's spirit.\\(Dragons)
A dragon's pool and a tiger's den.\\(Dragons)
A muddled mix of fish and dragons.\\(Dragons)
Carriages like a stream and horses like a dragon.\\(Dragons)
Dragons soaring and tigers leaping.\\(Dragons)
Even a dragon struggles to control a snake in its native haunt.\\(Dragons)
Paint a dragon and dot the eye.\\(Dragons)
The dragonflies and the phoenix dance.\\(Dragons)
