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Discipline

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  1. 007 If you are in a hurry, take the long way round.
  2. 022 Tap even a stone bridge before crossing it.
  3. 023 A staff before the fall.
  4. 024 Where there is preparation, there is no worry.
  5. 025 To care, add care.
  6. 032 Haste ruins the work.
  7. 033 A short temper is a losing temper.
  8. 040 He who chases two hares catches neither.
  9. 058 The mouth is the source of misfortune.
  10. 063 Even unfed, the samurai holds his toothpick high.
  11. 064 Early rising earns three coins of profit.
  12. 070 Each day, one good deed.
  13. 075 A hundred harms, not one benefit.
  14. 079 The tallest dike fails through an ant's hole.
  15. 082 In my deeds, I know no regret.
  16. 086 What happens twice will happen three times.
  17. 096 Skilled at everything, rich in nothing.
  18. 100 Buying cheap is losing your money.
  19. 107 As soon as words are spoken, the lips feel cold — autumn wind.
  20. 118 A stomach eight-tenths full needs no doctor.
  21. 119 Too much is as bad as too little.
  22. 120 One thing tells all things.
  23. 122 He who travels a hundred leagues counts ninety as halfway.
  24. 125 After victory, tighten your helmet cords.
  25. 130 Act without announcing.
  26. 132 One aim, whole heart.
  27. 133 Carry your first resolve through to the end.
  28. 134 Sleeping on firewood, tasting gall.
  29. 137 Clear mirror, still water.
  30. 140 Sincere simplicity, quiet strength.
  31. 158 Rust comes from the blade itself.
  32. 159 The year's plan is drawn on New Year's morning.
  33. 174 Lying is the beginning of theft.
  34. 177 Without far sight, near sorrows.
  35. 178 To see what is right and not do it is to lack courage.
  36. 186 A full turn of the heart.
  37. 193 Knowing when to withdraw is winning.
  38. 194 Of the thirty-six stratagems, retreat is the finest.
  39. 198 A thousand days of practice to forge; ten thousand to polish.
  40. 202 Calm and equal to oneself, whatever happens.
  41. 235 Answering the moment as it comes.
  42. 238 The beauty of a completed ending.
  43. 239 Entering alone, blade drawn, straight to the point.
  44. 241 Mistaking the branch for the root.
  45. 246 Dragon's head, snake's tail.
  46. 248 Legs on a snake.
  47. 252 The pen and the sword, both ways.
  48. 254 One single thread, from head to tail.
  49. 259 Braiding the rope after catching the thief.
  50. 275 Let yourself be wrapped by what is longer than you.
  51. 278 First chase the flies above your own head.
  52. 282 A three-day monk.
  53. 287 Let a house be designed for summer.
  54. 297 Kept hidden, it becomes the flower.
  55. 302 One step a day: in three days, three steps.