Tiān bù yán zì gāo; dì bù yán zì hòu.

Lit Heaven [need] not speak of its height, nor earth of its thickness.

Fig If one is good, one is good, and it's not necessary to boast about it.

Note [See the colloquial suyu expression tiān gāo, dì hòu, (lit) “how high the sky and how deep the earth”; (fig) “the immensity of the universe; the complexity of things; how things are.”]

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