Even if you hide yourself from the world, don’t lose sight of your real nature.
It is easy to show braveness from a safe distance.
Live near water, and ask not about sustenance.
The journey is just as important as the destination.
We are all wanders of this earth; our hearts are full of wonder and our souls are full of dreams.
After the war, many heroes present themselves.
Without other people's companionship, even paradise would be an unlikable place.
Choose a wife to please yourself, not others.
The eyes have one language everywhere.
The blessing of having many children has never broken a man's roof.
In the birds' court, a cockroach never wins his case.
If you are building something and a nail breaks, should you stop building altogether, or should you change the nail?
In every generation there are some outstanding chiefs.
A careless person will be taken by surprise by his observant enemy.
Please yourself and you'll please somebody.
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.
He may say that he loves you, wait and see what he does for you.
We won the war, but we lost peace.
When the dogs bark at the moon, the moon is not brought down because of it.
When a man moves from nature, his heart becomes hard.
Though the speaker be a fool, let the hearer be wise.
Tomorrow's remedy will not ward off the evil of today.
Make your affairs known in the marketplace, and one will call them black and another white.
Begin in other people's way so as to end by having your own way.
Every season brings its joy.
Give the grateful man more than he asks for.
He who talks a lot is bound to be right sometimes.
If you don't pay a servant his wages, he will pay himself.
If someone cannot even keep his own secrets, don't count on him to keep someone else's.
Buy from people who are desperate, and sell to newlyweds.
Talking about bulls is not the same thing as being in the bullring.
When a pickpocket sees a saint, all he sees are his pockets.
It takes sweat to work, but only saliva to criticize.
A husband and wife often fight intensely at one moment and then kiss intensely at the next moment.
Some prefer liquor, others prefer tofu, and some even like rotten salmon.
Greed will cause pain.
If someone transports dung and doesn't eat it, don't conclude that he is an honest person.
Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
It is better to lend than to give. To give employment is better than either.
There is a great difference between him who is ashamed before his own self, and him who is only ashamed before others.
The sweetness of food doesn't last long, but the sweetness of good words does.
Those who flee from taxes and rent flee from selling and buying.
There is not a single season without fruit.
The hunter who is tracking an elephant does not stop to throw stones at birds.
If one soldier understood the thoughts of another, there would be no wars.
A penny saved is a penny earned, but sometimes a penny is better spent than saved.