1852 Chinese Proverbs / Page 81
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To know another is not to know that person's face, but to know that person's heart.1602.
To know one's self is to know others, for heart can understand heart.1603.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.1604.
To learn about other people is science, to learn to know yourself is intelligence.1605.
To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too long.1606.
To listen well is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation.1607.
To make good conversation there are a thousand subjects, but there are still those who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.1608.
To meet an old friend in a distant country is like the delight of rain after a long drought.1609.
To mock your elders is to wreck the house where you have to stay tonight.1610.
To open a book brings profit.1611.
To open a business is very easy; to keep it open is very difficult.1612.
To open a shop is easy -- the hard part is keeping it open.1613.
To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art.1614.
To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing stones on one fallen into a well.1615.
To pretend to satisfy one's desires with worldly goods is like using straw to put out a fire.1616.
To scrape the light off one's face.1617.
To serve a prince is like sleeping with a tiger.1618.
To stop drinking, study a drunkard when you are sober.1619.
To talk goodness is not good . . . only to do it is.1620.
To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.