1852 Chinese Proverbs / Page 42
821.
If you want your children to have a peaceful life, let them suffer a little hunger and a little coldness.822.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.823.
If you wish to know what most occupies a man's thoughts, you have only to listen to his conversation.824.
If you would be happy for a week, take a wife; if you would be happy for a month, kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.825.
If you're born to be hanged, then you'll never be drowned.826.
If your books are not read, your descendants will be ignorant.827.
If your mind is strong, all difficult things will become easy; if your mind is weak, all easy things will become difficult.828.
If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.829.
Ill gotten gains are like snow that is sprinkled with hot water.830.
Illness comes in by mouth; ills come out by it.831.
In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.832.
In a group of many words, there is bound to be a mistake somewhere in them.833.
In every family's cooking pot is one black spot.834.
In face of evil, one would rather be a jade broken than a brick intact.835.
In his decision the judge with seven reasons gives only one in court.836.
In reviling, it is not necessary to prepare a preliminary draft.837.
In shallow holes moles make fools of dragons.838.
In shallow waters, shrimps make fools of dragons.839.
In the ant's house, the dew is a flood.840.
In the broken nest there are no whole eggs.