The cup is already broken.
The cowl does not make the monk.
Politicians campaign in poetry, but govern in prose.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
[前人种树, 后人乘凉]
No one throws stones at a fruitless tree.
人上有人，天上有天
[No matter how good you think you are, there is always someone out there that is better.]
The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel the warmth.
百川歸海
[All rivers flow to the sea.]
The cold water doesn’t get warmer if you jump late.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Them’s the breaks.
吃着碗里的,看着锅里的
[Eating what’s in the bowl while looking at what’s in the pot.]
To whom much is given, much is tested.
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