1852 Chinese Proverbs / Page 165
- 1641. Unplowed fields make hollow bellies; unread books make hollow minds.
 - 1642. Urge people to work, not to eat.
- 1643. Use power to curb power.
- 1644. Vicious as a tigress can be, she never eats her own cubs.
- 1645. Victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
- 1646. Virtue becomes a wife; beauty becomes a concubine.
- 1647. Virtue is not left to stand alone.
- 1648. Virtue never dwells alone, it always has neighbors.
- 1649. Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice.
- 1650. Virtue: climbing a hill; vice: running down.
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