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Behind every able man, there are always other able men.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.

Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.

Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.

To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.

Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.