20 postscripts

First-rate, second-rate, and third-rate will fail, but first-rate, second-rate, and third-rate will succeed.

◆If you don’t practice for one day, your hands and feet will be slow, if you don’t practice for two days, you will lose half of your skills, if you don’t practice for three days, you will be a layman, and if you don’t practice for four days, you will stare.

◆Ten years of practice will make you a good literary scholar, but ten years of practice will not make you a good scholar.

◆People practice in the world, and the sword is sharpened on the stone.

◆A journey of a thousand miles is worth ten years of reading.

◆The heart is separated from the belly, and people look at their behavior.

◆Strength is overwhelming, but courage is overwhelming.

◆Don’t talk about speaking for three days, and don’t do manual work for three years.

◆Words are unfounded, but facts are proof.

◆There are big carp swimming in the lake, not as good as the small crucian carp on the table.

◆It is better to speak with your mouth than to be there, and to hear it with your ears is worse than witnessing it.

◆Children in the mountains are not afraid of wolves, and children in the city are not afraid of officials.

◆Ten thousand words may not satisfy you, but a handful of flowing water can quench your thirst.

◆The mountain is climbed step by step, and the boat is rolled out one oar after another.

◆One look is worth less than a thousand lessons, and one practice is worth less than a thousand looks.

◆If you live on a slope for a long time, it is never too steep.

◆Horses look at their teeth, and people look at their words and deeds.

◆If you don’t experience the cold of winter, you won’t know the warmth of spring.

◆If you don’t take the burden, you don’t know the weight; if you don’t walk the long road, you don’t know the distance.

◆If you don’t sleep in the quilt, you don’t know how wide it is.

◆If you don’t get into the water, you will never know how to swim; if you don’t set sail, you will never know how to punt.

◆If you don’t have a family, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are; if you don’t have children, you don’t know the kindness of your parents.

◆Your hands won’t get dirty if you don’t touch the bottom of the pot, and your hands won’t get greasy if you don’t hold the oil bottle.

◆The falling water reveals stones, and over time it reveals people’s hearts.

◆The blacksmith should hold the pliers by himself, and the farmer should go to the fields by himself.

◆ Ask the woodcutter when gathering firewood, and ask the boatman when sailing a boat.

◆Better to have done it than to miss it.

◆I was fooled the first time, but became enlightened the second time.

◆Send back water and accumulate mud; experience something and gain wisdom.

◆Hearing is false, seeing is true.

◆The old horse knows the way, the old man is sophisticated.

◆If the old people don’t talk about the past, the younger generations will be wrong.

◆The old beef is chewy and the old man’s words are listening.

◆Old ginger has a strong spiciness, and the elderly have more experience.

◆It is better to see it than to hear it a hundred times, and to do it once is worse than seeing it a hundred times.

◆Suffer once and learn to be good.

◆Only when you are in charge do you know that salt and rice are expensive; only when you go out do you know that the road is difficult.

◆ Just talk without practicing the fake moves, just practice without talking about the real moves, talk and practice all the moves.

◆The more you file, the faster the saw will be, and the more you will gain knowledge.

◆A tree has many roots and people have many knowledge.

◆Chop firewood and go up the mountain, catch birds and go up the tree.

◆Chop wood, chop off the little head, and ask the old man for directions.

◆The casserole will not leak unless it is pounded, and the wood will not be able to penetrate unless it is chipped.

◆Grass cannot cover the eyes of an eagle, and water cannot cover the eyes of a fish.

◆Medicine farmers go into the mountains to see herbs, and hunters go into the mountains to see animals.

◆It is a snake with a cold body, and a wolf with a fishy body.

◆Fragrant flowers may not necessarily be beautiful, and good talk may not necessarily be capable.

◆After some setbacks, I gained some insights.

◆Have extensive experience and know much.

◆If you want to know what is happening in the mountains, ask the old farmers in the countryside.

◆Know the kindness of your parents and hold your children and grandchildren in your arms.

◆If you want to eat spicy food, plant spicy rice seedlings; if you want to eat carp, walk along the Yangtze River.

◆The old man is half-hearted, but the old man knows everything.

Proverb No. 2

◆One person’s words are all right, but two people’s words are different.

◆One righteousness can ward off three evils, and a righteous person can ward off hundreds of evils.

◆The momentary strength depends on strength, and the eternal victory or defeat depends on reason.

◆One thing makes sense, all things are in harmony.

◆People are afraid of being ignored, and dogs are afraid of having their tails pinched.

◆People are afraid of reason, and horses are afraid of whips.

◆People have their own reasons, and horses have their reins.

◆The more people produce righteousness, the more grains produce good rice.

◆It doesn’t depend on whether the person is close or not, but whether it is straightened out or not.

◆As long as there are no clouds in the sky and no rain, nothing will happen in the world.

◆All bows in the world are curved, but all principles in the world are straight.

◆There are no two days in the sky, and there are no two principles in people.

◆The more you dig the well, the clearer the water becomes; the more things are laid out, the clearer the reason becomes.

◆Be unreasonably flustered, and be rationally courageous.

◆The oxen cannot drag the harrow, and the people speak unreasonably.

◆If you accept reason but not people, you will not be afraid of anything.

◆Recognize reason but not people, help managers but not relatives. The water is too big to cover the boat, and the hand is too big to cover the sky.

◆If the water is not level, let it flow; if the reason is not level, let it flow.

◆When the water recedes and the stone remains, good people will not be bad.

◆Convince the population with force and convince people with reason.

◆If you give people an inch, you can be reasonable.

◆Speak the truth when you have reason, and speak nonsense when you have no reason.

◆Those who are reasonable think about what to say, and those who are unreasonable rush to say it.

◆A person who is right is not afraid of being pressured by force, and a person who is upright is not afraid of a distorted shadow.

◆Don’t talk too high when you are right, talk about it in front of your face.

◆Don’t throw away the rationale and don’t argue with the unreasonable.

◆Win with reason and lose without reason.

◆ Put reason into action and use good steel to the edge.

◆You can travel all over the world with reason, but you can’t move even without reason.

◆A tree can fall down with an axe, but it will not fall down with a reasonable argument.

◆You have ambitions but not your age, and you have reason but you don’t know how to speak.

◆Eat rice and talk rationally.

◆The one who eats people is soft-spoken and the one who talks about people is short-sighted.

◆Eat with flavor and speak with reason.

◆He can walk without making a difference, and he can talk without making sense.