begin with the lesser things to obtain the greater; he who would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

(medicine) zoonosis, more specifically, amphixenosis: a disease that can infect both humans and animals

two heads are better than one

successive series of questions and responses

vicissitudes, the way that the world or a person prospers one day and declines the next

dotting the i's and crossing the t's

You should treasure every encounter, for it will never recur.

a unit of volume equal to 1,200 millet grains

personal

full-fledged, qualified, up to standard / adulthood, behaving like an adult or as a member of the society / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 一人, 前. ("one person's portion")