definitions of <span class="searchmatch">凡事</span><span class="searchmatch">预</span><span class="searchmatch">则</span><span class="searchmatch">立</span>，<span class="searchmatch">不</span><span class="searchmatch">预</span><span class="searchmatch">则</span><span class="searchmatch">废</span> – see <span class="searchmatch">凡事</span>預則<span class="searchmatch">立</span>，<span class="searchmatch">不</span>預則廢 (“preparedness ensures success and unpreparedness spells failure”). (This term is the simplified form of <span class="searchmatch">凡事</span>預則<span class="searchmatch">立</span>，<span class="searchmatch">不</span>預則廢)....
the Book of Rites: <span class="searchmatch">凡事</span>豫則<span class="searchmatch">立</span>，不豫則廢。言前定則<span class="searchmatch">不</span>跲，事前定則<span class="searchmatch">不</span>困，行前定則<span class="searchmatch">不</span>疚，道前定則<span class="searchmatch">不</span>窮。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.] <span class="searchmatch">凡事</span>豫<span class="searchmatch">则</span><span class="searchmatch">立</span>，不豫<span class="searchmatch">则</span><span class="searchmatch">废</span>。言前定<span class="searchmatch">则</span><span class="searchmatch">不</span>跲，事前定<span class="searchmatch">则</span><span class="searchmatch">不</span>困，行前定<span class="searchmatch">则</span><span class="searchmatch">不</span>疚，道前定<span class="searchmatch">则</span>不穷。 [Traditional Chinese...