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I like most of these. I don't get this one:

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

I think it means that a compassionate person assumes the people he's compassionate towards are incapable of bettering themselves, and thus contemptible.

I'm not sure whether I agree or not, but my first guess is that it's sometimes true and sometimes not. Deep, huh?

I think your interpretation is spot-on, but I disagree with the quote.

I suspect the author is defining compassion more like "pity" than "patience and understanding" (sympathy, by definition).

As the Chinese say, 1001 words is worth more than a picture.

This one amuses me, but I don't get it.

Imho : A picture worth 1000 words, so 1picture = 1000w, 1001w > 1000w => 1001w > 1picture

Right, but what is the relationship to the Chinese?

A picture worth 1000 words is a Chinese proverb, and you can inference from it the 1001 words sentence, so it's a Chinese proverb too.

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