Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire.

An image is better than one thousand words

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.

There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.