A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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Faith will move mountains. ~English Proverb
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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