Selections from "Chinese Proverbs from Olden Times",
(c) 1956 Peter Pauper Press, loosely organized into
four categories: Speech, Conduct, Teaching/Learning,
and Reminders.


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SPEECH
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Swiftest horse
cannot overtake
the word once spoken


Two good talkers...
not worth
one good listener


In multitudes of words
surely some mistakes


Water and words...
easy to pour
impossible to recover


Too much talk
beware trouble...
too much food
beware indigestion


If the first words fail...
ten thousand
will not then avail


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CONDUCT
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Honest scales
and full measure
hurt no man


You want no one
to know it?...
then don't do it


Forget the favors
you have given...
remember those received


The careful foot
can walk anywhere


The saving man
becomes the free man


Laws control
the lesser man...
right conduct controls
the greater one


The wise man
hearkens to his mind...
the foolish man
to his cronies


If you always give
you will always have


Men fated to be happy
need not haste


The wise man tarries not
to instruct the fool


Three early risings
make an extra day


Slow work... fine work


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TEACHING/LEARNING
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To know the road ahead
ask those coming back


A good teacher...
better than a barrowful
of books


Learning is treasure
no thief can touch


Teachers open the door...
you enter by yourself


No road to happiness
or sorrow...
find them in yourself


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REMINDERS
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A good neighbor...
a found treasure


The mind...
emperor of the body


At birth we come
at death we go...
bearing nothing