The best cure for drunkenness is to observe a drunken person when you are sober.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about drunkenness, people, contentment
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When traveling do not calculate the distance, at dinner don't think of how much.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about virtue, wealth, contentment
When your horse is on the brink of a precipice it is too late to pull the reins.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about army
The farmer hopes for rain, the walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about gods, rain
Before you prepare to improve the world, look around your own house three times.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about world, home, house, contentment
Those who sacrifice their conscience to ambition burn a painting to obtain ashes.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about painting, sacrifice, ambition, conscience
One never comes to pray in the Temple of Three Treasures if he is not in trouble.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about treasure, pray, problems
A dish of carrot hastily cooked may still has soil not cleaned off the vegetable.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
When you lift your hand to strike, you are three-tenths lower than your opponent.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if ypu employ him, don't suspect him.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man, contentment
If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment, man
Virtuous for ten years is still not enough; evil for one day is too much already.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about day
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about ambition, conscience
When the itch is inside the boot, scratching outside provides little consolation.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about consolation
When your horse in on the brink of a precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
A small cottage wherein laughter lives is worth more than a castle full of tears.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about laughter, tears
Drunkenness does not itself cause bad qualities but it does show them up clearly.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about drunkenness, bad luck, bad
Who tells me of my faults is my teacher; who tells me of my virtues does me harm.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about teachers
