Favorite Proverbs of the Chinese

FAVORITE PROVERBS OF THE CHINESE.

Politeness before force. I

If you bow at all, bow low. Money makes a blind man see. Better not be than be nothing. Oblige and you will be obliged. More treeg are upright than men. Gold is tested by fire; man by gold. No child thinks its own mother ugly. Some study shows the need for more. Great truths cannot penetrate rustic ears. The highest towers begin from the ground. Free-sitters at the play always grumble most. Every man gives a shove to the tumbling wall. One man makes a road, and another walks on it. If Fortune smiles, who doesn't; if Fortune doesn't, who does?

With money you can move the gods; without it you can't move a man. No image-maker worships the gods; he know3 what they are made of. If you suspect a man, don't employ him; if you employ him, don't suspect him. Happy is he who fights with himself; wretched is he who con- tends with others. No distance can separate what heaven unites; nothing can unite what heaven separates.