Use power to curb power.
Vicious as a tigress can be, she never eats her own cubs.
Virtue becomes a wife; beauty becomes a concubine.
Virtue is not left to stand alone.
Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice.
Virtue: climbing a hill; vice: running down.
Virtuous for ten years is still not enough; evil for one day is too much already.
Wait long, strike fast.
Waiting for a rabbit to hit upon a tree and be killed in order to catch it.
Want a thing long enough, and you don't.
Water and words are easy to pour but impossible to recover.
Water can do without fishes, fishes cannot do without water.
Water does not stick to the mountain, and vengeance does not stick to a big heart.
Water from far away is no good for a fire close by.
Water that has reached its level does not flow.
We all like lamb; each has a different way of cooking it.
We can study until old age and still not finish.
We forget even incense in easy times; come hard times, we embrace the Buddha's feet.
Weaklings never forgive their enemies.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Weaving a net is better than praying for fish at the edge of the water.
