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Sail while the breeze blows, wind and tide wait for no man.
One should choose the lesser of two evils.
What the sober man has in his heart, the drunkard has on his lips.
Ambition and revenge are always hungry.
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
It is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new.
Bad is never good until worse happens.
The most difficult mountain to cross is the threshold.
He is most cheated who cheats himself.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.
Faults are thick where love is thin.
Wisdom goes not always by years.
Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them.
All the great things in life come with some kind of problem attached.
Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.
Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still.
You may force a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Better a friend’s bite than an enemy’s caress.
Every person is a fool in somebody’s opinion.
Don’t sail out farther than you can row back.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow.
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.
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