凡事豫則立。

Forewarned is forearmed.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 凡事 fánshì everything
=2 豫 Yù abbr. for Henan province 河南 in central China
=2 豫 yù
  1. happy
  2. carefree
  3. at one's ease
  4. variant of 預 yù
  5. old variant of 與 yù
3 則 zé
  1. (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then
  2. (bound form) standard; norm
  3. (bound form) principle
  4. (literary) to imitate; to follow
  5. classifier for written items
=4 立 Lì surname Li
=4 立 lì
  1. to stand
  2. to set up
  3. to establish
  4. to lay down
  5. to draw up
  6. at once
  7. immediately