| When the enemy asks for a truce without warning, he is up to something. ~Sun Zi~ Spring and Autumn Period |
| You know the music of Earth but you do not know the music of Heaven. ~Zhuang Zi~ Warring States Period |
| Without you, loneliness is my only companion. ~Du Fu~ Tang Dynasty |
| If we are human, alive, have feelings, then tears my wet our breast. ~Du Fu~ Tang Dynasty |
| A distant heart creates a wilderness around it. ~Tao Qian~ Eastern Jin Dynasty |
| If you abandon me, I will not complain. Men have always been this way. ~Cui Yingying (attrib. Yuan Zhen) Tang Dynasty |
| We must give the love we had for each other, to the person Fate has given us. ~Cui Yingying (attrib. Yuan Zhen)~ Tang Dynasty |
| Night and day are give over to pleasure, And they think it will last for a thousand autumns. ~Li Bo~ Tang Dynasty |
| A man thinks he knows but a woman knows better. ~Traditinal (Chinese)~ |
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| The blind cannot see for they have no eyes. The deaf cannot hear, for they have no ears. You do not understand for you have no spirit. ~Lian Shu (to the doubting Jian Wu)~ Zhou Dynasty |
| A Selection of Chinese Proverbs |
| Do not worry if other do not understand you. Worry if you do not understand them. ~Zi Xia~ Spring and Autumn Period |
| Let not the opportunity pass, for it may not return. ~Kui Tong~ Western Han Dynasty |
| The violent man shall die a violent death. ~Lao Zi~ Spring and Autumn Period |