It is not easy to stop the fire when the water is at a distance; friends at hand are better than relations afar off.

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

It is not easy to stop the fire when the water is at a distance; friends at hand are better than relations afar off.

Tradizione cinese · raccolta Clouston · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 432

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

The best thing is to be respected, the next, is to be loved; it is bad to be hated, but still worse to be despised.

Tradizione cinese · raccolta Clouston · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 123

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

A foolish husband fears his wife; a prudent wife obeys her husband.

Tradizione cinese · raccolta Clouston · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 161

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as the hollow mountain returns all sounds.

Tradizione cinese · raccolta Clouston · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 229

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

By nature all men are alike, but by education very different.

Tradizione cinese · raccolta Clouston · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 234