To draw the picture of a tiger, and make a dog out of it, is to imitate a masterpiece and spoil it.
Human pleasures are like the flittings of sparrows.
A narrow-minded man resembles a frog in a well.
Do not pull up your stockings in a melon-patch, or straighten your hat in a peach orchard; any one seeing you may think you are stealing.
To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.
One thread does not make a rope.
The tiger does not walk with the hind.
You can neither buy wood in the forest nor fish by the lake.
If a blind man leads another blind man, they will both fall into a hole.
No maker of idols worships the gods; he knows their composition too well.