1852 Chinese Proverbs / Page 40
781.
If you beat spice it will smell the sweeter.782.
If you bow at all, bow low.783.
If you can command yourself, you can command the world.784.
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.785.
If you curse your wife in the evening, you will sleep alone at night. A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.786.
If you do not study hard when young you'll end up bewailing your failures as you grow up.787.
If you do not want anyone to know, do not do it.788.
If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain.789.
If you don't speculate, you can't accumulate.790.
If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something.791.
If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it.792.
If you don't want to be cheated, ask the price at three shops.793.
If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.794.
If you have money and wine, your friends will be many.795.
If you have never done anything wrong, you should not be worrying about devils to knock at your door.796.
If you have nothing else to offer me, offer me your smile.797.
If you have nothing to do, go home early.798.
If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily.799.
If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.800.
If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.