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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings.
Bear with evil and expect good. Who never climbed, never fell. Fresh fish and new-come guests smell when they are three days old. Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble. A wise fox will never rob
his neighbour's hen roost. Money is a good servant but
a bad master. There is no pillow so soft
as a clear conscience. Envy goes beyond
avarice. Make yourself a sheep and the wolf will eat you. When all other sins are old avarice is still young. An enemy does not sleep. The doctor is often more to
be feared than the disease. Nothing
is as burdensome as a secret. The
eagle does not hunt flies. The sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness. What you are doing, do thoroughly. Anger is a bad counselor. When the blind man carries the banner, woe to those who follow. True nobility is invulnerable. When the dog is drowning every one brings him water. Too much scratching smarts; too much talking harms. It is only at the tree loaded with fruit that people throw stones. Communities begin by building their kitchen. It is all one whether you are bit by a dog or a bitch. The best driver will sometimes upset. The fox thinks everybody eats poultry like himself. Money is round; it must roll. Forty is the old age of youth; 50 is the youth of old age. Life is an onion which one peels crying. Don't snap your fingers at the dogs before you are out of the village. Every one bears his cross. He who threatens is afraid. Everything in time comes to him who knows how to wait. Great thieves hang the little ones. One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
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