Chinese Proverb

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

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Those who have not tasted the bitterest of life's bitters can never appreciate the sweetest of life's sweets.

Only the brave deserve the fair, but only rich, fat, cowardly merchants can afford them.

Settle one difficulty and you keep hundreds away.

Someone may open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

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

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.

If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily.

The saving man becomes the free man.

Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.