无心插柳柳成阴。
A leopard cannot change its spots./you cannot make a crab walk straight.江山易改，本性难移。
Don’t trouble touble until trouble troubles you.车到山前必有路。 Accidents will happen./Every tide has its ebb.天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。
Even Homer sometimes nods./The best horse stumbles.智者千虑，必有一失。
Rome was not built in a day.冰冻三尺，非一日之寒。
The shephered would rather lose the wool than the sheep.留得青山在，不怕没柴烧。
A little leak will sink a great ship./a stitch in time saves nine.亡羊补牢。
Silence is golden.沉默是金。
A rolling stone gathers no moss.滚石不生苔。 One swallow does not make a summer.一燕不成夏。 All is not gold that glitters. 闪闪发光物，并非皆金子。
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.双鸟在林，不如一鸟在手。
A bird in known by its note and a man by his talk.闻啼知鸟，闻言知人。
Safety and danger alternate with each other. Misfortune and fortune
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generate each other. Slowness and promptness follow each other. Gathering and scatering complement each other.安危相宜，祸福相生，缓急相争，聚散相成。
When full,remember someone elso is suffering hunger, when warm, remember someone elso is suffering cold, when in case, remembe someone else is suffering fatigue.
饱而知人之饥，温而知人之寒，逸而知人之劳。
Man seeks before gains, toils before succeeds, accumulates before increases, and exhausts his efforts before he becomes a sage. Thus, a sage grows out of accumulation.
彼求之而后得，为之而后成，积之而后高，尽之而后圣。故圣人也者，人之所积也。 Learn
extensively,
inquire
thoroughly,
ponder
prudently,
discriminate clearly, and practice diligently.博学之，审问之，慎思之，明辩之，笃行之。
One can never be aware of the height of the sky or the depth of the earth, if he does not climb up a high mountain or look down into a deep abyss.不登高山，不知天之厚；不临深渊，不知地之厚也。
It is better to hear something than not to hear it.still better to see it than hear it. Still better to know it than to see it. Still better to practice it than to now it. Learning will not stop until it is put into
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practice. 不闻不若闻之，闻之不若见之，见之不若知之。学至行之而止矣。
Wealth and rank attained through imoral means are as empty as floating clouds to me.不义而富贵，于我如浮云。
It makes a moral man to ask for what he doesn’t know, to learn what he can’t do, and to restrain himself from what he is capable of.不之则问，不能则学，虽能必让，然后为德。
Brave and courageours you are the most. Till your death you stick to your post.诚既勇兮又以武，终刚强兮不可凌。
A public spirit will rule all under the heaven when the great Way prevails.大道之行也，天下为公。
The endless river flows eastward, with its huge waves,gone are all those gallant heroes of bygone years. 大江东去，浪淘尽，千古风流人物。
What is most perfect seems to have something missing, yet its use in unimpaired. What is most full seems empty, yet its use will neer fail. What is most straight appears crooked, what is most skilled appears clumsy, and what is most eloquent appears incoherent.大成若缺，其用大弊，大盈若冲，其用不穷，大直若曲，大巧若掘。 Absorbed in paiting, you knnow not old age is coming, indeed, to me wealth and rank are like clouds drifting away.丹青不知老将至，富贵于我如浮云。
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We wish each other a long life so as to share the beauty of this graceful moonlight, even though we are miles apart.但愿人长久，千里共婵娟。
The way that can be told of is not an Unvarying way, the manes that can be named are not unvarying names. It was nameless that heaven and the Earth sprangfrom, it was the named that nurtured everything between the Heaven and the Earth.道可道，非常道， 名可名，非常名。无名，天地之始；有名，万物之母。
The way fills up the universe. For its geatness, nothing lies outside it, for its smallness, nothing lies within it.道在天地之间，其大无外，其内无小。
Following the naural law, everything will go on smoothly. Disobeying it, even rule established will upset.得天之道，其事若自然；失天之道，虽立而不安。
As the Earth’s capacity is to hold, so must a gentleman constantly cultivate virtue in himself to shoulder the world.地势坤，君子以厚德载物。
A lonely stranger in a strange land I am cast, I miss my family all the more on every festive day.独在异乡为异客，每逢佳节倍思亲。 Stick to the truth you believe, broaden your knowledge about it, and be ready to die for its realization.笃信好学，守死善道。
The gentlemam does not agree those who know too much but are
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close to nothing, or learn too broadly bu without direction, or love too many but without fixed one.多知而无亲，博学而无方，好多而无定者，君子不与。
If two people are of the same mind, their sharpness can cut through metal.二人同心，其利断金。
The law does not favor the noble, as an ink line does not yied to the crooked wood. Whereever the law applies, the wise cannot evade, nor can the brave defy. Punishment applies to a minister, as rewards apply to common man.法不阿贵，绳不挠曲。 法之所加，智者弗能辞，勇者弗能争。 刑过不避大臣，赏善不遗匹夫。
It is a true great amn whom no money and rank can confuse, no poverty and hardship can shake, and no power and force can suffocate.富贵不能淫，贫贱不能移，威武不能屈，此之谓大夫矣。 Impartiality produces clarity and partiality obscurity.公生明，偏生暗。
Be strict with yourself and lenient to others.躬自厚而薄责于人。 Life or death, I wll do whatever I can for the benefits of the country.苟利社稷，死生以之。
The noble takes the humble as its root, the high takes the low as its base.贵以贱为本，高以下为基。
A sea is vast, as it rejects no water. A mountain is high, as it rejects no rocks. A wise ruler gathers more people, as he is not tired of
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