Slander cannot destroy an honest man

The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials

The man who comes with a talk about others has himself an ax to grind

The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out

The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn’t been asleep

The man will surely fail, who dares delay, And lose to-morrow that has lost to-day

The way of a slothful man is as a hedge of thorns

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them

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