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The error of one moment becomes the sorrow of a whole life.
~ Chinese Proverbs
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
~ Chinese Proverbs
Outside noisy, inside empty.
~ Chinese Proverbs
There are never enough blessings, but there are too many troubles.
~ Chinese Proverbs
He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.
~ Chinese Proverbs
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
~ Chinese Proverbs
Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.
~ Chinese Proverbs
Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.
~ Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
~ Chinese Proverbs
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
~ Chinese Proverbs
Character can be revealed by time.
~ Chinese Proverbs
After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.
~ Chinese Proverbs
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
~ Chinese Proverbs
If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.
~ Chinese Proverbs
He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.
~ Chinese Proverbs
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
~ Chinese Proverbs
Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise.
~ Chinese Proverbs
To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root.
~ Chinese Proverbs
Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
~ Chinese Proverbs
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
~ Chinese Proverbs
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
~ Chinese Proverbs
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
~ Chinese Proverbs
If there is light in the soul; There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person; There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house; There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation; There will be peace in the world.

~ Chinese Proverbs
If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.
~ Chinese Proverbs
A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
~ Chinese Proverbs
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He was a thinker, political figure, educator, and founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought. Known to the Chinese as Master Kong and to the rest of the world as Confucius, he created a philosophy based on virtue and believed in honesty, respect, sincerity.

Confucius taught that it was not the satisfaction of the senses in the present moment that would bring true happiness, but well-planned actions and the helping of fellow man which mattered most.
(551-479 BCE)

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