Chinese proverbs

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Life is like a candle in the wind; like frost on the roof; like the wriggling of the fish in the pan.

When fate throws a dagger at you, there are only two ways to catch it: by the blade or by the handle.

One moment of patience may ward off a great disaster; one moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.

Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.

To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.

To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too long.

It is impossible to add much weight with a single morsel; it is hard to travel afar with a single step.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations, can never effect a reform.

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