Deceives us often, conscience never.
理智是人生的向导和明灯。
Reason is the guide and light of life.
理智约束着人。
Reason binds the man.
理智支配一切。
Reason rules all things.
理智指导智者，棍棒管制愚汉。
Reason governs the wise man a cudgels（棍棒）the fool.
两错相加不等于一对。
Two blacks do not make a white.
两件截然相反的事情不能同时干。
You cannot whistle and drink at the same time.
两雄相遇，必有争斗。
When Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of war（拔河）.
流水不腐，户枢不蠹。
Drawn wells are seldom dry.
Iron not used soon rusts.
No grass grows in the market-place.
Rest breeds rust.
Standing pools gather filth.
To a boiling pot flies come not.
路远方显担子沉。
Light burdens far heavy .
Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
逻辑不容折中。
Logic admits of no compromise.
没有规矩不能成方圆。
Custom makes all things easy.
Let all things be done decently and in order.
没有了谁地球都照样转。
You are Davy do all things.
没有无法纠正的过错。
No wrong without remedy.
没有一成不变的事物。
There is nothing permanent except change.
每个创伤都有药可治。
There is a salve for every sore.
每个极端都是错误。
Every extremity is a fault.
每个问题都有两个方面。
There are two sides to every question.
面包最香，盐最有味，儿童最可爱。
The best smell is bread, the best savor salt, the best love that of children.
名声是债务。名气越大越繁忙。
Names are debts.
耐心、时间和金钱可以征服一切。
Patience, time, and money overcome everything.
泥地要快走。
Quick steps are best miry ground.
年龄越大，办事越牢。
The tired ox treads surest.
牛比鱼卖的便宜的城市不会繁荣起来。
That city cannot prosper where an ox is sold for less than a fish.
否(pi)极泰来。山穷水尽疑无路，柳暗花明又一村。
After a storm comes a calm.
After clouds, clear / fine weather.
After rain comes fair weather / sunshine.
After rain, sunshine.
It is a long lane that has no turning.
The darkest hour is before / nearest the dawn.
When bale is highest, boot is highest.
普遍规律必有例外。
The exception proves the rule.
There is no general rule without some exception.
There is no rule without an exception.
气壮如牛，胆小如鼠。
Long mint, little dint.
千里之堤，溃于蚁穴。
A little / small leak will sink a great ship.
A little leak will sink a great ship.
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
A small leak will sink a great ship.
前人栽树，后人乘凉。
Plant pears for your heirs.
巧妇难为无米之炊。
Bare walls make giddy housewives.
If you have no hand, you cannot make a fist.
It is hard sailing when there is no wind.
It is hard to catch birds with an empty hand.
Make bricks without straw.
Mills will not grind if you give them not water.
No man can make a good coat with bad cloth.
Of nothing, nothing is made.
Of nothing comes nothing.
One cannot make bricks without straw.
What is a workman whthout his tools.
You can’t make brics without straw.
轻车熟路最安全。
The beaten road is the safest.
人都是吃软不吃硬。
You will catch more flies with a spoonful of honey, than with a gallonful of vinegar.
人非圣贤，孰能无过。
All men are fallible.
Every man has his faults.
Everybody has some weak spot.
He is lifeless that is faultless.
Lifeless, faultless.
There is none without a fault.
To err is human.
人急造反，兔急咬人。
A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion.
A fly even has its anger.
A stag at bay is a dangerous foe.
Even a worm will turn.
Put a coward to his mettle, and he’ll fight the devil.
人急造反，兔急咬人。牛奶变酸，其酸无比。
Nothing turns sourer than milk.
人急造反，狗急跳墙。
Despair gives courage to a coward.
Despair makes cowards courageous.
Need makes the old wife trot.
The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more than one wood.
Tramp on a snail, and she’ll shoot out her horns.
人急造反，狗急跳墙。苍蝇也有脾，蚂蚁也有胆。
The fly has her spleen and the ant her gall.
人善有人欺，马善有人欺。
He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by the wolf.
He who makes himself a dove is eaten by the hawk（鹰）.
If you make yourself an ass, don’t complain if people ride you.
Make yourself all honey, and the flies will devour you.
Men leap over where the hedge is lowest.
Where the hege is lowest, men may soonest over.
人是互相的。
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.
Claw me and I’ll claw you.
Scratch me, and I’ll scratch you.
Kindness lies not aye in one side of the house.
人无完人。金无足赤。
A friend without fault will never be found.
Each man has his limitations.
Every man has defects of his own virtues / his qualities.
Every man has his weak side.
Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart where no error grows.
No man / one is without his faults.
No man is indispensable.
No man is infallible here on earth.
No silver / gold without his dross（渣滓）.
Nobody is without faults.
None of us are infallible.
Straight trees have crooked roots.
The best wine has its lees.
The brightest of all things, the sun, has its spots.
The sun has its spots.
There are lees to every wine.
There are spots in the sun.
There is no garden without its weeds.
There is no man but errs.
人无完人。瑕瑜互见。
Every rose has its thorn.
Roses have thorns.
Everybody has his merits and faults.
The peacock has fair feathers but foul feet.
There is no rose without a thorn.
人无完人。目能及千里之外，却不能见其眉睫。
The eye that sees all things else sees not itself.
人一旦失去理智，必然走向毁灭。
When God wishes to destroy, he first deprives of reason.
仁者见仁，智者见智。人人好恶不同。
Each one thinks in his way.
One man’s meat is another man’s poison.
One thing thinks the bear, and another he that leads him.
One thing thinks the horse, and another he that saddles.
The donkey means one thing and the driver another.
The horse thinks one thing, and he that saddles him another.
任何交通工具都有危险。
The way to heaven is as ready by water as by land.
任何事物过多了都不好。
Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
任何罪恶的秘密终将公诸于众。
The sun sees all things and discovers all things.
日有所思，夜有所梦。
We see sleeping that which we wish for waking.
弱肉强食。大鱼吃小鱼。
Great trees keep down little ones.
Man live like fish, the great ones devour the small.
The great fish eat up the small.
弱者总是被人欺。
The deaf gains the injury.
塞翁失马，焉知非福。福兮祸所伏。
Afflictions are sometimes blessings in disguise.
Bad luck often brings good luck.
Behind bad luck comes good luck.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Evil does not always come to injure.
Ill luck is good for something.
Great fortune brings with it great misfortune.
Misfortune might be a blessing in disguise.
Nothing so bad as not to be good for something.
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
塞翁失马，焉知非福。大失必有小得。
No great loss without some small gain.
No great loss but some small profit.
山中无老虎，猴子称大王。
The one-eyed is king in the land of the blind.
In the kingdom of blind men the one-eyed man is king.
A timid cat makes a proud mouse.
Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.
In the country of the blind the one-eyed is king.
When all fruit fails, welcome haws.