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百胜难虑敌，三折乃良医
bǎi shèng nán lǜ dí , sān zhé nǎi liáng yī
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- 1. (a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫|刘禹锡[liú yǔ xī]) one gains very little insight into one's enemy from a hundred victories, but he who breaks his arm three times will be a good doctor
- 2. (fig.) one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes