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The peony is beautiful, yet it is supported by a stalk

Look for a thing until you find it and you’ll not lose your labor

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure

Hatred corrodes the vessel in which it is stored

Cheap things are not good, good things are not cheap

Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men’s clothes

Virtue never dwells alone, it always has neighbors

Garden flowers larger, field flowers stronger

Falling hurts least those who fly low

Forethought is easy, repentance hard

Be just, before you’re generous

Far waters cannot quench near fires

A courtesy much entreated is half recompensed

The best cure for drunkenness is whilst sober to observe a drunken person

An ambassador bears no blame

Conquerors are kings; the beaten are bandits

Do not add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it

Many books do not use up words; many words do not use up thoughts

Mallet strikes chisel; chisel splits wood

A bridle for the tongue is a necessary piece of furniture

A single untried popular remedy often throws the scientific doctor into hysterics

A single beam cannot support a great house

The one who understands does not speak, the one who speaks does not understand

A flea on top of a bald head

Use power to curb power