Mankind scorns a virtuous man, but heaven does not.
Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
Measure your throat before you swallow a bone.
Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.
Men fated to be happy need not haste.
Men know not all their faults, oxen all their strength.
Men see only the present; heaven sees the future.
Merit and glory never adorn a nightcap.
Misfortune is not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.
Misfortune only comes in when the door is open.
Mockery is the flashing of slander.
Money can buy a lot that is not even for sale.
Nature is better than a middling doctor.
Never be boastful; someone may come along who knew you as a child.
Never boast -- you might meet someone who knew you as a child.
Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
Never do anything that you want to remain a secret.
Never does a woman lie in a more cunning way than when she tells the truth to someone who doesn't believe her.
Never eat in a restaurant where the chef is thin.
Never has a man more need of his intelligence than when a fool asks him a question.
Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.
