Pleasures are shallow, sorrows deep

Similar sayings:

Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep
If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow
In shallow holes moles make fools of dragons In shallow holes moles make fools of dragons
One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows
Sorrow is the child of too much joy Sorrow is the child of too much joy

Chinese sayings and proverbs