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- 003 千里の道も一歩から A journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
- 012 失敗は成功のもと Failure is the foundation of success.
- 013 好きこそものの上手なれ What one loves, one will do well.
- 014 習うより慣れろ Practice beats being taught.
- 015 初心忘るべからず Never forget the beginner's spirit.
- 016 温故知新 Warm up the old to understand the new.
- 017 井の中の蛙大海を知らず The frog at the bottom of the well knows nothing of the great ocean.
- 018 百聞は一見に如かず Hearing a hundred times is not worth seeing once.
- 019 論より証拠 Proof beats argument.
- 037 朱に交われば赤くなる Touch vermilion and you turn red.
- 043 灯台下暗し The base of the lamp stands in darkness.
- 047 芸は身を助ける A skill always ends up helping.
- 054 可愛い子には旅をさせよ Send the child you cherish on a journey.
- 060 良薬は口に苦し Good medicine is bitter in the mouth.
- 088 聞くは一時の恥、聞かぬは一生の恥 To ask is a moment's shame; not to ask is a lifetime's shame.
- 089 人の振り見て我が振り直せ Watch others' conduct and mend your own.
- 093 亀の甲より年の功 Better than the tortoise's shell, the merit of years.
- 094 負うた子に教えられて浅瀬を渡る The child on your back shows you the ford.
- 095 昔取った杵柄 The pestle handle of long ago.
- 103 柳の下にいつも泥鰌はいない There is not always a loach under the willow.
- 110 雪は天から送られた手紙である Snow is a letter sent from the sky.
- 126 一葉落ちて天下の秋を知る One leaf falls, and we know autumn is coming to the world.
- 129 下手の横好き Unskilled, but devoted.
- 131 切磋琢磨 Carving and polishing one another.
- 150 一を聞いて十を知る Hear one, understand ten.
- 151 学問に王道なし There is no royal road to learning.
- 152 玉磨かざれば光なし Unpolished jade does not shine.
- 155 若い時の苦労は買ってでもせよ The hardships of youth — buy them if you must.
- 170 喉元過ぎれば熱さを忘れる Once past the throat, the burn is forgotten.
- 179 過ちて改めざる、是を過ちという The real fault is not to mend one's fault.
- 190 押してもだめなら引いてみな If pushing fails, try pulling.
- 235 臨機応変 Answering the moment as it comes.
- 249 矛盾 The spear and the shield.
- 250 朝三暮四 Three in the morning, four at night.
- 252 文武両道 The pen and the sword, both ways.
- 260 立て板に水 Water on an upright board.
- 272 六十の手習い Learning calligraphy at sixty.
- 280 読み書きそろばん Reading, writing, arithmetic.
- 283 学びて思わざれば則ち罔し Learning without thinking leads only to darkness.
- 285 一寸の光陰軽んずべからず Do not count an inch of time as nothing.
- 288 少しのことにも先達はあらまほしきことなり Even in small things, a guide is desirable.
- 290 やまとうたは、人の心を種として、万の言の葉とぞなれりける Japanese poetry has the human heart as its seed, from which grow myriad leaves of words.
- 297 秘すれば花 Kept hidden, it becomes the flower.
- 298 天は人の上に人を造らず人の下に人を造らず Heaven creates no man above other men, nor any man below.
- 300 初心の花を忘るべからず Do not forget the flower of your beginnings.