Easier to bend the body than the will.
Easier to rule a nation than a son.
Easy to believe in heaven's law, but so hard to keep.
Easy to enroll a thousand soldiers. But, ah, one general!.
Easy to know men's faces, not their hearts.
Easy to run downhill, much puffing to run up.
Eighteen daughters beautiful as goddesses are not as good as one crippled son.
Enjoy yourself - it's later than you think.
Enough food and a pipe full of tobacco makes you equal to the immortals.
Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.
Even a big elephant can be caught in one female hair.
Even a sheep with the skin of a tiger is afraid of the wolf.
Even a tower a hundred yards tall has still its foundations on the ground.
Even an accomplished physician cannot cure himself.
Even criminals have their uses; they keep sleepyheads awake.
Even the highest towers begin at the ground.
Even the most beautiful morning cannot bring back the evening.
Even ugly faces are worth looking at -- and that is a great comfort for most people.
Even when a girl is as shy as a mouse, you still have to beware of the tiger within.
Every book must be chewed to get out its juice.
Every kind of wood is grey when they are reduced to ashes.