Three glasses of wine end a hundred quarrels.
Three times an early rise makes a whole day.
Thrift is independence.
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
To be able to curse once a day improves happiness and lengthens life.
To be for one day entirely at leisure is to be for one day an immortal.
To be human is easy, to be a human being is difficult.
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
To die is to stop living but to stop living is something entirely different than dying.
To do good for ten years is not enough; do bad things for one day and it is too much.
To fall is not painful for those who fly low.
To feed the ambition in your heart is like carrying a tiger under your arm.
To find out about the road ahead, ask those coming back.
To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.
To have beautiful servant girls is a threat to good marriages.
To have saved one human life is worth more than to build a pagoda with seven stories.
To know and know that you know, not to know and know that you don't know, that is to know.
To know how to do it is simple, the difficulty is in doing it.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
