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Adversity
A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.

Advice
Sincere advice may offend the ear but is beneficial to one’s conduct.

Advice
Honest advice is unpleasant to the ears.

Bore
Good words by the third time will even bore the dogs.

Business
Business is thirty percent patience.

Business
Public business should be conducted publicly.

Business
Never discuss public business while drinking.

Diligence
A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.

Diligence
Diligence is the basis of wealth, and thrift the source of riches.

Doctor
The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.

Dreams
To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.

Dreams
If I'm dreaming, never let me wake. If I'm awake, never let me sleep.

Earth
Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.

Evil
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

Happiness
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Identity
A bird does not sing because it has an answer...it sings because it has a song.

Individuality
The nail that sticks out must be hammered down.

Intelligence
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. -- Chinese Proverb

Journey
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Journey
On a journey of a hundred miles, ninety is but half way.

Judgment
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. -- Chinese Proverb

Law
Laws control the lesser man...Right conduct controls the greater one.

Law
Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat. -- Chinese Proverb

Progress
Climb mountains to see lowlands.

Speech
The tongue like a sharp knife...Kills without drawing blood. -- Chinese Proverb

Temptation
Not wine...men intoxicate themselves; Not vice...men entice themselves. -- Chinese Proverb

Vision
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years -- Chinese Proverb

Wisdom
The pine stays green in winter...Wisdom in hardship. -- Chinese Proverb