Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.

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To understand your parents' love bear your own children

To understand your parents' love bear your own children

Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light...

Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light...

He who carves the Buddha never worships him

He who carves the Buddha never worships him

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of...

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of...

Love is blind, and greed insatiable

Love is blind, and greed insatiable

Medicine can only cure curable disease, and then not always

Medicine can only cure curable disease, and then not always

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as...

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as...

So long as a man is angry he cannot be in the right

So long as a man is angry he cannot be in the right

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the...

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the...

Do not employ handsome servants

Do not employ handsome servants

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

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

Gold is tested by fire, people by God

Gold is tested by fire, people by God

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can...

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can...

One joy shatters a hundred griefs

One joy shatters a hundred griefs

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.

The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.

Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man's fingers

Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man's fingers

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll...

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll...

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should...

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should...

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...