The brave person regards dying as just going home.
The careful foot can walk anywhere.
The cat got an order and delegated it to her tail.
The conquerors are kings; the defeated are bandits.
The contented person can never be ruined.
The conversation of the wise concerns ideas; that of the intelligent is about ideas; the common folk talk about food.
The corn is not choked by the weeds but by the negligence of the farmer.
The country where flowers are expensive lacks the foundation of culture.
The court official in one life has seven rebirths as a beggar.
The crow does not roost with the phoenix.
The day your horse dies and your money's gone, your relatives change into strangers.
The day your horse dies and your money's lost, your relatives change to strangers.
The delicacy of the feast is the learned guest.
The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.
The door to virtue is heavy and hard to open.
The doorway to charity is difficult to open and difficult to close.
The dragon teaches you that if you want to climb high you have to do it against the wind.
The earth offers you a grave everywhere.
The emperor is rich, but he cannot buy one extra year.
The fangs of the green snake and the sting of a wasp don't really make poison -- that is only to be found in a woman's heart.
The farmer hopes for rain, the walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate.
