People live like birds in a wood: When the time comes, each takes flight.
People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight.
Pick your inn before the dark; get on your road before the dawn.
Plan your year in the spring, your day at dawn.
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
Poverty and ugliness are difficult to hide.
Practice no vice because it's trivial; neglect no virtue becasue it's so.
Present to the eye, present to the mind.
Pure gold does not fear the smelter.
Quiet rivers have flowery banks.
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Rather once cry your heart out than always sigh.
Real gold is not afraid of the melting pot.
Reform a gambler. Cure leprosy.
Repentance is the spring beneath our virtues.
Reshape one's foot to try to fit into a new shoe.
Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.
Respect spiritual beings but keep your distance.
Rich men accumulate money; the poor accumulate years.
Riches add to the house, virtues to the man.
Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.
