“The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.”
“All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.”
“What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.”
“If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.”
“Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.”
“A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.”
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
“To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.”
“Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.”
“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.”
“If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.”
“Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.”
“With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.”
“He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.”
“If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him.”
“When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.”
“Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.”
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”
“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.”
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.”
“The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.”
“Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.”
“If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.”
“Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.”
“The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.”
“Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.”
“Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.”
“In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.”
“When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries.”