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A collection of Chinese Sayings for you to think about.

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  • Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
  • If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
  • Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.
  • Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
  • Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
  • To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.
  • One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade.
  • There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.
  • If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.
  • Paper cannot wrap up a fire.
  • You cannot fight a fire with water from far away.
  • Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed rather at not being understanding.
  • The palest ink is better than the sharpest memory.
  • Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.
  • Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.
  • When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy.
  • A Jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.
  • Good luck seldom comes in pairs but bad things never walk alone.
  • Fight poison with poison.
  • Tiger father begets tiger son.
  • The error of one moment becomes the sorrow of a whole life.
  • He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself.
  • Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.
  • Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
  • If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation.
  • Men in the game are blind to what men looking on see clearly.



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