bǎi​shèng​nán​lǜ​dí​sān​zhé​nǎi​liáng​yī

failure is the mother of success

  • created sense approved 百胜难虑敌,三折乃良医/百勝難慮敵,三折乃良醫 · bǎi​shèng​nán​lǜ​dí​sān​zhé​nǎi​liáng​yī · failure is the mother of success — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    百胜难虑敌,三折乃良医 / 百勝難慮敵,三折乃良醫

    bǎi​shèng​nán​lǜ​dí​sān​zhé​nǎi​liáng​yī

    failure is the mother of success

    One learns more from one's failures than from one's successes; literary expression by [[刘禹锡|劉禹錫|liu2 yu3 xi1]] literally meaning that a hundred victories make it hard to evaluate an enemy, while breaking one's arm three times makes one a good doctor

    百 (literal) → 百 · bǎi · hundred 胜 (literal) → 胜/勝 · shèng · to win 难 (literal) → 难/難 · nán · difficult 虑 (literal) → 虑/慮 · lǜ · to consider 敌 (literal) → 敌/敵 · dí · enemy , (non_chinese) 三 (literal) → 三 · sān · three 折 (literal) → 折 · zhé · to break 乃 (literal) → 乃 · nǎi · to be 良 (literal) → 良 · liáng · good 医 (literal) → 医/醫 · yī · doctor

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