人无远虑，必有近忧

Traditional form:

人無遠慮，必有近憂

Pinyin (reading):

rénwúyuǎnlü,bìyǒujìnyōu

Definitions:

• He who gives no thought to far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects).
• Smug concentration on the here and now will lead to future sorrow.

Characters:

• 人 - man, person; people
• 无 - no, not; lacking, -less
• 远 - distant, remote, far; profound
• 虑 - anxious, concerned, worried
• 必 - surely, certainly; must; will
• 有 - to have, to own, to possess; to exist
• 近 - to approach; near, close; intimate
• 忧 - sad, grieving; melancholy, grief

Traditional characters:

• 人 - man, person; people
• 無 - no, not; lacking, -less
• 遠 - distant, remote, far; profound
• 慮 - anxious, concerned, worried
• 必 - surely, certainly; must; will
• 有 - to have, to own, to possess; to exist
• 近 - to approach; near, close; intimate
• 憂 - sad, grieving; melancholy, grief